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Meet the Need: The Impact of the Integration of Social Justice Pedagogy via Volunteering

Meet the Need: The Impact of the Integration of Social Justice Pedagogy via Volunteering

Jared Lee Wuerzburger (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, USA), Oscar G. Henriquez (Indiana State University, USA), and Larry S. Tinnerman (Indiana State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9567-1.ch009
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Abstract

The classroom is a living body that is molded and shaped by different factors. The factors that make up the classroom experience are determined by the universities, colleges, accrediting bodies, and professors. Colleges and universities increasingly demand that professors incorporate social justice issues in the classroom. For this study, volunteering was recommended in an information technology course at a Midwestern institution to incorporate social justice pedagogy. Students participated in volunteering at a food pantry and took a volunteer functions inventory (VFI) assessment before volunteering and then after volunteering. The VFI assessment identifies six motivation categories. This chapter examines only two of those six categories, social and values. The study analyzed participating students before volunteering and then after volunteering for both motivation categories. Implications and recommendations are featured to provide context.
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Motivations for Volunteering

Clery et al. (1998) suggests that the key themes that have contributed to the understanding of phenomena and processes in the realms of attitudes and persuasion, social cognition, social relationships, and personality also hold the promise for unraveling the complex motivational foundations of volunteer activity. Table one lists and describes the six functions.

Table 1.
The volunteer functions inventory which assesses motivations and rewards of volunteering (Clary, et al., 1998).
FunctionDescription
Valuesexpressing or acting on important values, such as humanitarianism and helping those less fortunate
Understandingseeking to learn more about the world and/or exercise skills that are often unused
Enhancementseeking to grow and develop psychologically through involvement in volunteering
Careergoal of gaining career-related experience through volunteering
Socialvolunteering allows the person to strengthen one’s social relationships
Protectivevolunteering to reduce negative feelings, such as guilt, or to address personal problems

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