Learning and Volunteering Abroad for Development: Unpacking by Rebecca Tiessen

By Rebecca Tiessen

Learning/volunteer overseas programmes supply possibilities for cross-cultural realizing, partnership-building, and cooperative improvement, yet there also are major structural demanding situations and inequality of chance concerns that outcome from those partnerships among host firms within the international South and learning/volunteer in a foreign country for improvement (LVA4D) individuals from the worldwide North. Learning and Volunteering in another country for Development goals to unpack the advanced merits and downsides of learning/volunteer in a foreign country programmes, utilizing insights from the volunteers who shuttle out of the country and the groups who host them.


Based on empirical study inside either volunteer and host groups, this e-book presents scholars and students with an alternate framework for a extra cautious and nuanced research of foreign volunteering programmes, highlighting how one can enhance severe mirrored image, improvement results, and intercultural competence.


Supported via an internet site with extra studying assets, this book is an quintessential source for senior undergraduate and graduate scholars drawn to going in another country, in addition to for students or improvement pros who're prime or getting to know such programmes.


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