On the Exploration of the Educational Function of College Students’ Volunteer Service Activities
Affiliation(s)
1 School of Foreign Studies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China. 2 Jingzhou Experimental Middle School, Jingzhou, China.
1 School of Foreign Studies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China. 2 Jingzhou Experimental Middle School, Jingzhou, China.
ABSTRACT
As an indispensable part of civilized society, volunteer service owns the characteristics of gratuitousness, voluntary, public-welfare and practice. It is a noble social behavior and an important social welfare undertaking, and the educational value of which should not be underestimated at any circumstances. Colleges and society should strengthen the education and guidance of volunteer service, create atmosphere and cultivate voluntary consciousness, make constant innovation of contents and forms of volunteer service, and improve its incentive mechanism, to establish a long-term mechanism of college students’ volunteer service.
As an indispensable part of civilized society, volunteer service owns the characteristics of gratuitousness, voluntary, public-welfare and practice. It is a noble social behavior and an important social welfare undertaking, and the educational value of which should not be underestimated at any circumstances. Colleges and society should strengthen the education and guidance of volunteer service, create atmosphere and cultivate voluntary consciousness, make constant innovation of contents and forms of volunteer service, and improve its incentive mechanism, to establish a long-term mechanism of college students’ volunteer service.
Cite this paper
Wu, L. and Liu, H. (2015) On the Exploration of the Educational Function of College Students’ Volunteer Service Activities. Creative Education, 6, 2186-2191. doi: 10.4236/ce.2015.620223.
Wu, L. and Liu, H. (2015) On the Exploration of the Educational Function of College Students’ Volunteer Service Activities. Creative Education, 6, 2186-2191. doi: 10.4236/ce.2015.620223.
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[1] Dou, X. K., & Zhu, X. Q. (2012). Review of College Students Volunteer Service over the Past Ten Years. Contemporary Education Forum, 2, 109-113. [2] Moore, C. W., & Allen, J. P. (1996). The Effects of Volunteering on the Young Volunteer. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 17, 231-258. [3] Tracy, D. C., Ed. (1995). The Volunteer Management Handbook. Wiley Nonprofit Series. [4] Troth, M. A. L., & Dunn, C. P. (1999). Social Constructs and Human Science: Managical Sense making of Volunteer Motivation. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organization, 10, 345-361. [5] Xiao, H. L. (2012). The Role Play and Its Countermeasures of the Function of Ideological and Political Education of Volunteer Service Activities. Wuhan: Central China Normal University.