Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Jorge Cunha
Author-Name-First: Jorge
Author-Name-Last: Cunha
Author-Name: Rainer Mensing
Author-Name-First: Rainer
Author-Name-Last: Mensing
Author-Name: Paul Benneworth
Author-Name-First: Paul
Author-Name-Last: Benneworth
Title: A conceptual framework to understand academic student volunteerism
Abstract: This paper develops a conceptual framework to understand the value of an increasing number of university study programmes that send students to the global south by learning through volunteering. We ask the research question what determines the benefit that these activities bring to the host community. To understand this, we conceptualise these activities as academic student volunteerism and propose a framework to understand the value of these activities using Callahan & Thomas’s (2005) volunteer tourism framework. We examine our research question using a single case study of a Minor programme in a Dutch university, exploring how course design and student selection affect student behaviour as an antecedent step to creating student benefits. We identify six kinds of factors that appear to promote ‘deeper’ (better) contributions and argue that these six factors require further analysis to better realise university contributions to societal development in Global South contexts.
Creation-Date: 2018
File-URL: https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/cheps/research/CHEPSWorkingPaperSeries/chepswpseries201803.pdf 
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 201803
Keywords: Student Volunteerism, Academic volunteering, Global south, Sustainable development, University engagement, Knowledge society
Handle: RePEc:chs:wpachs:201803