ETHNOGRAPHY OF YOUTH LEARNING

Authors

  • Patcharin Poonthawe faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
  • Khanitta Nuntaboot Community Department, Faculty of nursing, , Khon Kaen University, , Khon Kaen, Thailand

Keywords:

youth, volunteering spirit, youth’s learning

Abstract

The purpose of this qualitative study aimed to study learning of youth through the community volunteering spirit process in a socio-cultural context. The study was conducted in one municipality located in Sra-kaew province from December 2015 to October 2016. This study employed critical ethnography method as the research design and it was divided into 3 phases: 1) exploring the community to understand socio-cultural context, 2) studying the situation or event contributing youth volunteering spirit, and characteristic of youth volunteer in a community and 3) analyzing the outcome or learning of youth from the development of volunteerism system in youths by community.The participants were divided into 2 groups, including 42 key informants and 19 general informants. The data were collected using participant observation, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, and analyzed by content analysis.  The results indicated as follows. 1) The incidents and event causing youth volunteerism; Problems and needs in the community, National and local policies, Cultural practice, Cultural activities. 2) Five characteristics of the volunteering work of the youth; Sociological, Economical, Environmental, Health-related and Political characteristics 3) Seven Outcome from volunteer worked

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2017-11-16

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Poonthawe, P., & Nuntaboot, K. (2017). ETHNOGRAPHY OF YOUTH LEARNING. Proceedings of the International Conference on Public Health, 3(1), 64–70. Retrieved from https://tiikmpublishing.com/proceedings/index.php/icoph/article/view/83

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017): Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Public Health

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