Empowering Asian Youth Through Volunteering

Author : Elaine Suk Ching Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351589581

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Empowering Asian Youth through Volunteering by Elaine Suk Ching Liu Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer K. Park
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89074963703

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Facilitating Factors and Potential Barriers to Youth Volunteerism by Jennifer K. Park Pdf

Author : Elaine S.C LIU,Michael J. HOLOSKO,T. Wing LO
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789629371371

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Youth Empowerment and Volunteerism by Elaine S.C LIU,Michael J. HOLOSKO,T. Wing LO Pdf

The book provides guidelines and practical creative exercises which equip creativemajor students as well as creative practitioners with fundamental knowledge on creation methods. Combination of functionality, simplicity and aesthetics in modern design is considered a fundamental design principle in the Bauhaus School in Germany, and, inspired by the School, the creative handcrafting exercises and the concepts introduced in this book are primarily coherent with this principle. The book draws a direction between two and three dimensional material-based design and modern digital creation process. The first part of the book introduces various creative handcrafting exercises on proportion, geometry and modularity, among other fundamental design principles. The creative exercises will sensitize students on aesthetical and structural issues, and thus serve as an essential building block for application of the design principles to computer-based creative processes, which are introduced in the second part of the book. Published by City University of Hong Kong Press. 香港城市大學出版社出版。

Author : Elaine Suk-ching Au Liu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9629374668

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Youth Empowerment and Volunteerism by Elaine Suk-ching Au Liu Pdf

Author : Zhanguo Liu,T. Wing Lo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000537086

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Understanding Crime in Villages-in-the-City in China by Zhanguo Liu,T. Wing Lo Pdf

Rapid urbanization of economic zones in China has resulted in a special social phenomenon: "villages-in-the-city." Underdeveloped villages are absorbed during the expansion of urban areas, while retaining their rustic characteristics. Due to the rural characteristics of these areas, social security is much lower compared with the urbanized city. This book uses Tang Village, a remote area in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, as an example to establish a comprehensive analytical framework by integrating existing crime theories in analyzing villages-in-the-city. The analysis covers the community, individual, and macro levels to detail the diverse social and behavioral factors causing crime at multiple levels. First, a brief history of the urbanization process of Tang Village is provided to establish how urban planning contributed to the issues in the village today. The authors go on to explain how socially disorganized communities dictate the crime hotspots and the common types of crime. The book examines other risk factors that may contribute to the level of crime such as weak social controls, building density, and floating populations of poor working-class migrants. The routine activities of victims, offenders, and guardians are examined. The book concludes with the current trends in the social structure within the villages-in-the-city and their expected outcome after urbanization.

Author : Chau-kiu Cheung,Xiaodong Yue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000365122

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Happiness and Well-Being in Chinese Societies by Chau-kiu Cheung,Xiaodong Yue Pdf

This book addresses the sustainability of happiness and well-being in Chinese societies. It starts by introducing the various conceptions of well-being, particularly in the Chinese sociocultural context. The book then proceeds with the examination of the sustainability of well-being by scrutinizing the effects of sociocultural, contextual, and personal factors on well-being. The contextual factors are the aggregates or averages of personal factors at the contextual levels of the regions and colleges in Mainland China, its special administrative region, and Taiwan. These factors cover personality traits, strengths, orientations, beliefs, values, and idolizing. By bringing together empirical studies and theoretical perspectives applied to Chinese societies, this book offers researchers in social science and humanities a valuable reference work on happiness and well-being in Chinese societies.

Author : Grant J. Rich,Jas Laile Jaafar,David Barron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000065244

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Psychology in Southeast Asia by Grant J. Rich,Jas Laile Jaafar,David Barron Pdf

Despite diverse, rich cultural traditions and abundant economic opportunity, there has been a paucity of research on psychology in Southeast Asia. This book aims to fill that gap, with a series of well-written theoretical and empirical chapters by PhD psychologists in SE Asia along with respected international colleagues and co-authors from around the globe. In particular this book focuses upon critical sociocultural, clinical, and health issues and perspectives in psychology in Southeast Asia. Overviews help contextualize the cultural data, permitting nuanced examination of significant psychological issues in nations such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and more. Psychologists and mental health professionals with interests in Asia will find this book to be a must-read, as will other readers seeking to deepen their cultural and international understanding.

Author : Chau-kiu Cheung,Xiaodong Yue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429793257

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Creativity in Chinese Contexts by Chau-kiu Cheung,Xiaodong Yue Pdf

Examining creativity in Chinese societies from both a personal and contextual standpoint, this ground-breaking book offers readers a unique insight into the Chinese mind. It provides a review of the nature, origins, and consequences of creativity, deriving from empirical evidence in the Chinese context. Specifically, the book unravels the conceptualization of creativity and its relationships with various demographic and dispositional factors in Chinese societies. The book proceeds to give readers an understanding of how creativity maintains reciprocal relationships with various forms of well-being. The content of the book brings together empirical evidence and theory grounded on Chinese societies to offer researchers and students a unique realistic view of the nature of creativity there. This book will be a must read for any researcher or practitioner interested in this fascinating topic.

Author : Yoko Hosoi,Bunri Tatsuno,John Pratt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781003854777

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Crime, Punishment, and the Elderly by Yoko Hosoi,Bunri Tatsuno,John Pratt Pdf

Hosoi, Tatsuno and Pratt examine the realities, problems and backgrounds of crimes committed by elderly people in both Japan and international perspectives. Japan’s aging population is a commonly known issue globally, and the world looks to Japan to understand the issues that other nations may experience in the future. One such aspect is an increase in crimes committed by the elderly. According to the National Police Agency in Japan, the proportion of elders arrested for committing theft has doubled over the past 10 years. The chapters in this volume look to answer questions around the reason for elder crime, the types of crime and punishment that exists in this cohort of society and how this increasingly large problem in society can be managed. This book offers important insights into the societal issues and potential solutions for aging societies around the world. It will be a valuable research reference for scholars of mental health, criminology, population studies and Asian studies.

Author : Jean Rawitt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538129760

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Volunteering by Jean Rawitt Pdf

Volunteering: Insights and Tips for Teenagers provides a complete guide to the world of volunteerism. It shows you how to become engaged in what will be among the most gratifying and worthwhile experiences of your life. In this book you’ll learn why volunteerism is so important both to volunteers themselves and to those they serve and explore different types of volunteer opportunities and how to find and secure a rewarding volunteer placement. With advice from professionals and first-hand accounts from teen volunteers, including a fifteen-year-old girl who started a foundation that now helps hundreds of new parents, this book will help you make the most of your volunteer experience. You will learn how to research volunteer opportunities what to expect from the application, interview, and orientation process how to be a successful volunteer how to handle unfamiliar or uncomfortable situations and how to ask for help, and how you can use what you learn as a volunteer to create new academic or career opportunities. With helpful tips for success and a resource list of volunteer opportunities, this book provides everything you need to understand the vital and vibrant world of volunteerism.

Author : Nina Eliasoph
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691162072

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Making Volunteers by Nina Eliasoph Pdf

An inside look at how community service organizations really work Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach. With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. Eliasoph describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their resumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. She looks at adult "plug-in" volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. Eliasoph indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Based on participant research inside civic and community organizations, Making Volunteers illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective.

Author : Arthur Gillette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120890574

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One Million Volunteers by Arthur Gillette Pdf

Historical background and account of the development of international cooperation in the form of volunteer youth participation in community development schemes in developing countries - covers the social work of such institutions as the American Peace Corps and similar bodies in other countries and relevant activities of various international organizations. ILO mentioned and references.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015079696087

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South Asian Journal of Socio-political Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2874 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Endowments
ISBN : UOM:39015057971684

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The Foundation 1000 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yve Susskind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Adolescence
ISBN : UOM:39015049507497

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Youth Participation in Empowerment Planning by Yve Susskind Pdf