Preferences, social capital, and compulsory volunteering

Yang, Wei

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2013.03.023

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“…By service volunteering, the study refers to the rise in the way charities and education policy makers have increasingly talked about developing 'service-orientated citizens' through volunteering (Dekker and Halman, 2003). Indeed, this is an international trend, with an increasing number of research studies investigating mandatory volunteering across Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia, suggesting that the concept of 'service volunteering' has led to an increase in the number of young people who are involved in compulsory programmes (Kuti, 2004;Yang, 2013;Kim and Morgül, 2017;Sikora and Green, 2020).…”

Section: Mandatory Approaches and Service Volunteeringmentioning

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Girls who learn to serve: an ethnography exploring the gendered experience of school-based volunteering

Lau

2022

Voluntary Sector Review

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This is a study of a school-based volunteering programme; an ethnography of six girls enrolled onto the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme (DofE) at their secondary school in a deprived coastal community in the United Kingdom. Building on voluntary sector research into young people’s volunteering and feminist research into the systematic gender inequalities created by school structures, this article explores how often young people were coerced into school-based volunteering and how, in this case, the coercion was gendered. The researcher observed how the school’s prefect group, based on relations with school leaders and teachers, were recruited onto the DofE and then divided by gendered norms that ensured the girls and boys volunteered with different motivations and were incentivised and rewarded differently. Classed and gendered constructed identities, reinforced by school structures and practices, were evident in gendered school duties and caring responsibilities given to the girls. This article raises important considerations for voluntary sector–school partnerships that aim to empower and improve student opportunities. In this study, rather than challenge and empower young people, school-based volunteering served to reproduce societal classed and gendered inequalities.

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Section: Mandatory Approaches and Service Volunteeringmentioning

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Girls who learn to serve: an ethnography exploring the gendered experience of school-based volunteering

Lau

2022

Voluntary Sector Review

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“…Where school students are concerned, free will as a characteristic of volunteering needs to be carefully considered, as it is not obvious in ‘compulsory’ volunteering (Kim & Morgül, 2017; Yang, 2013). Although seemingly a contradiction of terms, volunteering can be mandated, or strongly encouraged, by educational institutions (e.g.…”

Section: Theory and Prior Research On Volunteeringmentioning

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Gifts as gains? The impact of volunteering on young people’s educational and occupational attainment in Australia

Sikora

Green

2020

Australian Journal of Education

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Volunteering is perceived as benefiting youth by facilitating university entry and access to better employment. However, little empirical evidence exists to show whether such perceptions are justified. Therefore, this article presents data on volunteering and attainment from a representative sample of Australians who were born around 1990 and participated in the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth between 2006 and 2016. Supplementing results of two-level hierarchical models involving person-year data with insights from several in-depth interviews, we argue that Bourdieu’s theory of social practice is a fruitful framework for understanding how volunteering affects university participation and occupational status of young people. Volunteering provides gains, but they are not large enough to view it as an instrumental means which young people use to advance their educational and employment prospects. Rather, volunteering can be considered as a form of cultural capital which is beneficial but enacted for reasons other than extrinsic rewards.

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Does ‘compulsory volunteering’ affect subsequent behavior? Evidence from a natural experiment in Canada

Yang

2016

Education Economics

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Preferences, social capital, and compulsory volunteering

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Girls who learn to serve: an ethnography exploring the gendered experience of school-based volunteering

Girls who learn to serve: an ethnography exploring the gendered experience of school-based volunteering

Gifts as gains? The impact of volunteering on young people’s educational and occupational attainment in Australia

Does ‘compulsory volunteering’ affect subsequent behavior? Evidence from a natural experiment in Canada

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