Empowering Asian Youth through Volunteering

Examples of Theory into Practice
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-10643-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asian Behavioural Sciences

This book describes the origin, development and current state of volunteerism in Asia and Hong Kong. It also presents a field-tested model of empowering through volunteerism (namely, the CYEP at City University), that involves youth, governmental and non-governmental agencies and their clients in a rapidly changing society. Volunteerism is then described as a "win-win" situation for all stakeholders/actors. Volunteerism converges the needs, the struggles, the personal motives and the aspirations of the volunteers, together with the dreams and the difficulties of the clients, the expertise of the professionals and the (lack of) resources of the agencies, the new values emerging in society, the effects of globalization and the new policies. This book presents actual Asian case examples with the voices of the people involved on the CYEP (volunteers, officers, service recipients) who explain how volunteering changed their lives, their values, their attitudes toward social, civic and political participation, their ethics and sense of individual responsibility. These stories from the frontlines can be adopted and/or adopted for use by other institutions, but it is also the chance for understanding the emergence of volunteering in Asia overall, and its future direction.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Elaine Suk Ching

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Behaviourismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface

Part I: Theories and concepts of volunteerism and the brief historical background of volunteering in Asia and Hong Kong
1. Defining and Conceptualizing Volunteerism
2. History of Volunteerism in Asia
3. History of Volunteerism in Hong Kong

Part II: Examples of theory into practice: Implementing the City-Youth Empowerment Project and its 5 selected programs
4. Creating and Sustaining a Volunteer Project: The City-Youth Empowerment Project (CYEP)
5. The Evolution and Maturation of CYEP
6. Using the Reciprocal Volunteer Process Model (RVPM) to implement developmental services for local children and youth
7. Using the Reciprocal Volunteer Process Model (RVPM) to implement rehabilitation services for local children and youth with special needs
8. Using the Reciprocal Volunteer Process Model (RVPM) to implement international service for children and youth in Cambodia and Myanmar
9. Using the Reciprocal Volunteer Process Model (RVPM) to implement services for local children and youth from ethnic minorities
10. Using the Reciprocal Volunteer Process Model (RVPM) to implement services for local elderly

Part III: Conclusions
11. Conclusion – Empowering youth through volunteerism

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elaine Suk Ching Liu is the Assiociate Head and Associate Professor of Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong.