Local volunteering, adult learning and social change in the Philippines : everyday learning, everyday literacies
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Local volunteering, adult learning and social change in the Philippines : everyday learning, everyday literacies
（Adult learning, literacy and social change）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-197) and index.
Summary:"Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this book explores the learning and literacy dimensions of local volunteering for social change in the Philippines. 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.