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A Culturally Relevant Symbol : = Participant Engagement in a Volunteer Tourism Youth Education Program and Impacts on Program Youth.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Culturally Relevant Symbol :/
Reminder of title:	Participant Engagement in a Volunteer Tourism Youth Education Program and Impacts on Program Youth.
Author:	Olsen, Lana Margaret.
Description:	1 online resource (269 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
Subject:	Sustainability. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355951967

A Culturally Relevant Symbol : = Participant Engagement in a Volunteer Tourism Youth Education Program and Impacts on Program Youth.
Olsen, Lana Margaret.

A Culturally Relevant Symbol :Participant Engagement in a Volunteer Tourism Youth Education Program and Impacts on Program Youth. - 1 online resource (269 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Engagement as a concept and emerging theory has been explored, but key elements have not been clearly described, and as such, work has not been comprehensive in nature. Research was needed to explore the concept and theory of engagement in general, as well its application to the study of volunteer tourism. Additional research was also needed to incorporate youth perspectives of a volunteer tourism program, along with exploration of engagement impacts on program youth. The purpose of this case study was to explore participant engagement in a volunteer tourism youth education program and impacts on program youth as perceived by program participants (volunteer tourist teachers, adult residents, and program youth). Confined within the Engagement Theoretical Framework, data were retrieved from nonprofit documents and websites, researcher observations, individual interviews, and focus groups (two focus groups used participant generated photo elicitation method).

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355951967Subjects--Topical Terms:

793436
Sustainability.
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Electronic books.

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520 $a Findings suggest participant engagement in a volunteer tourism program is related to the themes of connection, communication, and hope. The primary reason participant engagement in this program is due to the Mpingo (tree), the symbolic bridge between community members and volunteer tourist teachers. This culturally relevant symbol has linkages to the study of signs (or symbols) called semiotics. Through volunteers traveling to this area to teach, this culturally relevant symbol helps to connect, aids in the communication between, and gives hope to, participants. Significant contributions of this study to literature include: volunteer tourist and community member engagement plays an important role in the planning, and the sustaining, of volunteer tourism community development programs today; program youth perspectives about program impacts may result in prospective youth leadership and future adult civic engagement; program skill matched volunteers are likely to be repeat volunteers which leads to group cohesion and program sustainability; and the major theme of hope appears to be a significant motive for program participation in a community development project. In terms of deep meaning ascribed to culturally relevant symbols, this unique finding contributes to engagement research by understanding there are multiple dimensions involved in a diverse group of participants engaged in a specific community program.
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