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Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines : Everyday Learning, Everyday Literacies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millora, Chris, author.
- Series:
- Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change Series
- Adult learning, literacy and social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voluntarism--Philippines.
- Voluntarism.
- Adult learning--Philippines.
- Adult learning.
- Social change--Philippines.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- Summary:
- Offers an in-depth ethnographic case study of everyday learning of youths and adults in the context of local volunteering in the Philippines.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Series Foreword
- Adult Learning, Literacy and Social Change
- Foreword
- PrefaceNo One Is Too Poor That They Cannot Give
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Text
- Land4All
- Youth4Health
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: What Slips through the Net?: Volunteering, Learning and Literacies
- Introduction
- Definitions of Volunteering: What Slips through the Net?
- Volunteering through a Development Lens
- Definition of Volunteering in This Book
- Volunteering among 'Vulnerable' Groups
- Volunteering, Learning and Literacy: Exploring the Links
- Charting a Research Journey: Beyond Benefit and Deficit
- Chapter 2: A Country Built by Volunteers: Volunteering in the Philippines
- The Philippines' Civil Society Space
- Volunteering in the Philippines
- Volunteering and Learning
- Where Do the Two Case Study Organizations Fit In?
- Claiming Space: Land4All Homeowners' Association (Land4All)
- 'To Reach One Is to Save One': Youth4Health and HIV/AIDS Advocacy
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Volunteering, Learning and Literacies as Social Practices: Conceptual Starting Points
- Volunteering as Social Practice: Participation and Volunteering
- Development as Discourse
- Spaces of/for Participation
- Learning as Social Practice
- Learning and Social Practice
- Identification and Negotiability
- Gaps in the Theory of CoP
- Literacy as a social practice
- Literacy and Power
- Trajectories of Texts and Meanings
- Further Conceptualization of Power and Identity
- Microphysics of Power
- Positional Identity
- Towards a Social Practice Lens
- Chapter 4: Encountering Volunteering and Learning: A Research Journey
- Why Ethnography?.
- Charting Out My Encounter: Ethnographic Process
- Choosing the Two Case Studies: Opposite Ends of a Spectrum
- Gaining Access: 'A Constant Seeking of Permission'
- Tools of My Encounter: Research Methods
- Participant Observation
- Interviews as 'Conversations with a Purpose'
- Documentary Sources
- Making Sense of My Encounter: Ethnography as a Written Product
- Reflecting on My Encounter: Positionality, Reflexivity and Reciprocity
- 'Can You Ask Me about the Water?' Researching 'Home'
- The Ethics of Reciprocity
- Chapter 5: 'We Probably Know but We Can't Explain': Hidden Motivations for Volunteering
- 'We Are All Related Here Anyway!': Volunteering along 'Family' Lines
- Volunteering and Family Solidarity
- Blood Brothers: Maintaining Family-Like Relationships through Volunteering
- Intangible Motivations for Self and Others
- Bad Benefits? Hierarchies of Volunteering Motivations
- Volunteering Motivations: Spectrums Instead of Binaries?
- Chapter 6: Learning in/through Volunteering: Discourses and Practices
- Valuing Learning: Knowledge Hierarchies
- Learning in School Versus Real Life
- 'Volunteering Is My Edge': Learning and Employability
- Learning and Expertise
- Figuring Things Out Together: Informal Learning and Literacy Practices
- Learning to Teach
- Reading and Writing for Others
- Financial Record-Keeping
- Chapter 7: Bureaucratic Literacies: Texts, Participation and Inequalities
- Travelling Texts, Cha(lle)nging Meanings
- The Certificate
- The Map
- The Attendance Sheets
- Encountering and Challenging Travelling Texts
- Assembling and Wielding Documents of Power
- Literacies as Proof
- Literacies as Threat
- Literacies as Enabler
- Bureaucratic Literacies as Divisive.
- 'Look, Everyone Is Leaving': Shifting Composition in the Organization
- New Neighbours
- Chapter 8: Challenging, Maintaining and Reimagining Identities through Volunteering
- Dominant Volunteer Identities: What Are They and Where Are They Coming From?
- Victims, Beneficiaries and the 'Squatter Mentality': A View from Policy and Practice
- Constructing the 'Other'
- Challenging or Maintaining Identities?
- Rejecting Ascribed Identities through Volunteering
- 'But How about Me?' Identity Negotiations
- Conclusion: Volunteering, Learning and Literacies: Conceptual and Practical Lessons from Local Volunteers
- A Social Practice View: Implications for Research
- Implications for Policy and Practice
- Creating Spaces for/of Learning
- Expanded Volunteer Definitions and Typologies
- Enabling Environments?
- Recognizing Existing Diverse Practices and Identities
- Doing Ethnography within Development Contexts: Constraints and Opportunities
- References
- Index
- Half Title.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-34564-4
- 1-350-34563-6
- OCLC:
- 1519484668
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