Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines
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Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines

Everyday Learning, Everyday Literacies

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines

Everyday Learning, Everyday Literacies

About this book

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book explores the learning and literacy dimensions of local volunteering for social change in the Philippines. It tells the story of youth and adult volunteers who experience vulnerabilities yet play central roles in local development efforts in housing and sexual health. Why do people who themselves experience vulnerability volunteer to help others? And what are their learning experiences in the process? In its unique application of a literacy lens to the study of volunteering, the book unravels how marginalised groups, often seen as 'thankful receivers', (re)use texts, words and labels to (re)define their roles in shaping social change and for whose benefit. Chris Millora provides an in-depth look into the volunteers' everyday activities such as delivering community health classes, filling out donor forms and applying for government approvals. In doing so, this book reveals how volunteers' voices and agency were constrained to fit a certain bureaucratic way of working. It offers powerful case studies on how global development agendas such as value-for-money, upskilling and professionalisation – through bureaucratic literacies – impact the experiences of volunteers at the grassroots level. Arguing that literacy and volunteering could enhance inequalities within groups, this book calls for a renewed focus on the role that power and identities play both in adult/youth literacy and volunteering research.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Tables
  10. Series Foreword
  11. Foreword
  12. PrefaceNo One Is Too Poor That They Cannot Give
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. Note on Text
  15. List of Abbreviations
  16. Chapter 1: What Slips through the Net?: Volunteering, Learning and Literacies
  17. Chapter 2: A Country Built by Volunteers: Volunteering in the Philippines
  18. Chapter 3: Volunteering, Learning and Literacies as Social Practices: Conceptual Starting Points
  19. Chapter 4: Encountering Volunteering and Learning: A Research Journey
  20. Chapter 5: ‘We Probably Know but We Can’t Explain’: Hidden Motivations for Volunteering
  21. Chapter 6: Learning in/through Volunteering: Discourses and Practices
  22. Chapter 7: Bureaucratic Literacies: Texts, Participation and Inequalities
  23. Chapter 8: Challenging, Maintaining and Reimagining Identities through Volunteering
  24. Conclusion: Volunteering, Learning and Literacies: Conceptual and Practical Lessons from Local Volunteers
  25. References
  26. Index