TY  - JOUR
TT  - THE MAIN CHANGES OF STUDENTS’ VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES IN A RUSSIAN LARGE REGION (SVERDLOVSK REGION)
AU  - Maria, Pevnaya
AU  - Daria, Telepaeva
PY  - 2017
DA  - April
DO  - 10.18769/ijasos.309498
JF  - IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences
JO  - IJASOS
PB  - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2411-183X
SP  - 107
EP  - 112
VL  - 3
IS  - 7
KW  - Volunteering
KW  - student volunteering
KW  - young people
KW  - civic engagement
KW  - sociological monitoring
N2  - This article analyzes the survey’s results ofUniversity students in the Sverdlovsk region. It compares the data of the sixth(2012) and seventh (2016) stages of sociological monitoring. Volunteering inthis study is explored as part of the civic engagement of Ural youth. The pollwas conducted by questioning students from 14 universities of Sverdlovsk region(N=1802; type of sample is random-stratified). The sample included 34% men and66% women. The sample included students who receive education on humanitarian(40%), socio-economic (26%), science (11%), and technical (28%)specialty.In the questionnaires of 2012 and 2016, respondentswere asked: “Did you take part in volunteer activities in the last year?” Ithas allowed to distinguish among the students of 4 groups: students withoutexperience in volunteer activities; students who accidentally took part involunteer projects 1-2 times; the students working as volunteers from time totime (4-5 times in year); students who worked as volunteer constantly (1-2times per month).The respondents' answers help to assess the regularityof students’ volunteer activities from differentareas of training. Monitoring dataallowed to fix the increase in the share of regular working volunteers studentshumanitarians (29% in 2012 against 35% in 2016) and reduction among them those1 or 2 times participated in volunteer projects. These changes are evaluated aspositive as global experience shows that for a varietyof professional specialties socialsector, volunteering plays an important role in the professionalization ofyoung specialists. Technology of “learning by action” is implemented in Russianuniversities recently. This is a very important issue, because such changescharacterize the tendency of cooperation between higher educationalinstitutions, organizations of the social sphere and non-profit organizations.Significantly increased the number of those who havenever been involved in volunteer projects among students of science andengineering (10% and 6% respectively). In our opinion, such changes have adirect relationship with the transformation of the educational and upbringingactivities in Russian universities. The main way of higher education’sdevelopment focuses primarily on the scientific development and internationalcooperation of universities. This trend may indicate a consequence ofunderestimating the educational and training functions of the University’senvironment.To evaluate the motives and incentives of students’volunteer activity in the questionnaire were asked: “Under what conditionswould you agree to become a volunteer?” Respondents could choose no more thanthree of the nine alternatives.The monitoring results have allowed to record changesin the motivation of students receiving education in different areas oftraining.The comparison of survey data of 2012 and 2016 yearsdemonstrated a reduction in the number of students in humanitarian,socio-economic and naturalsciencespecialties, which under no circumstances will deal with volunteering in thefuture. For 4 years not only the number of engineering students (one in five) whoare not interested in volunteering has changed,Communications volunteer activities with educationalactivities would motivate more humanities students and techies.We recorded an increased importance of careermotivation for volunteering among all students of the Middle Ural, with 7% in2012 to 19% in 2016. Alternative to “If I helped it make a successful career”was important to 23% of engineering students (2012 – 10%), increased by 10% thenumber of students among the humanities (2012 - 7%, 2016 – 17%). Therelationship of volunteering with career development seems to be less importantfor students receiving education in natural science: in 2012 it was 9%, and in2016 – 12%.External incentives – “good organization of volunteeractivities and special education” – are the least important motives fortechnical specialtiesand students of natural-science direction.
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