VOLUNTEERISM: THE LEISURE PERSPECTIVE
VOLUNTEERISM: THE LEISURE PERSPECTIVE
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志愿服务:休闲视角
DOI:
10.1080/10261133.1997.9674069
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发表时间:
1997
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通讯作者:
R. Stebbins
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作者:
R. Stebbins
This issue of W d leisum and Recreation commemorates the inauguration this year of the Volunteerism Commission of the World Leisure and Recreation Association (provisionally approved for two years). This Commission was established with two main objectives in view: one is to organise and encourage research on all aspects of volunteering as they relate to leisure and vice versa. The other is to disseminate relevant research findings in this area to the applied sector, defined as individual volunteers, their managers, and the non-profit agencies and organisations located anywhere in the world where the findings are deemed useful. The six articles in this issue can only hint at the diversity of research problems and applications of research findings encompassed by the field of leisure and volunteerism, a field that has, however, received surprisingly little theoretical and empirical attention. Accordingly, anyone interested in the pure or applied facets of this juxtaposition of two critical areas of modern life is invited to join the Volunteerism Commission. To join or simply to learn more about its structure, objectives, and operating procedures, please contact me at one of the addresses listed at the end of this note. The articles comprising this special issue are as diverse as the field of leisure and volunteerism itself. This diversity is evident in Slbnley Parker's opening theoretical article, in which he presents a typology of four types of volunteering. He considers volunteering in its altruistic, market, causeserving and leisure forms, demonstrating in the course of his exposition that volunteering is undertaken with different motives and in the pursuit of different purposes. The four types are not therefore composed of mutually exclusive elements. Rather, each type shares certain elements with one or more of the others, even while each also describes a distinctive side of volunteering.Nigel Jam's and Lindsay King take us to the empirical level in their study of Guide and Scout organisations in England. First they conduct an extensive review of the research in the United Kingdom centred on starting and leaving voC unteering, after which they present their own survey data on these questions for volunteers in the Guides and Scouts. They found that one main reason for volunteering in these two organisations was the enjoyment of working with children and youth. Their respondents gave work or krmily commitments as the two principle reasons for leaving the Guides and Scouts. The survey of Australian volunteer sports administrators