Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development Killing Me Softly? /

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effect...

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Hauptverfasser: Ackers, Helen Louise (Verfasst von), Ackers-Johnson, James (Verfasst von)
Körperschaft: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017.
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Online-Zugang:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid'
  • 2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries
  • 3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'?
  • 4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change
  • 5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?.