服务他人获得经验：一个关于大学生参与服务学习的研究外文翻译.docVIP

外文翻译 原文 Serving Others and Gaining Experience: A Study of University Students Participation in Service Learning Material Source: Higher Education Quarterly, 0951–5224 Author: Daniela Acquadro Maran, Giorgio Soro, Alessandra Biancetti Abstract Unlike other countries, Italy has no ‘service learning’, the method enabling students to join accredited voluntary organizations in order to gain experience in serving others. An investigation was conducted in 2006 and 2007 to understand the opportunity that service learning provides to young adults, community and volunteer associations. The objectives were, first, to determine whether there is a need to forge links between the university and the world of volunteer work and, second, to describe the specific areas of action in the local context. A total of 603 video-recorded interviews were conducted. The findings show that there is a need to create a network for helping institutions, neighbourhoods and young adults to assess the demand and provide an organized response for educational and community needs. As a result, starting from this year, Turin University will be operating the first service learning in Italy. Introduction Voluntary service in Italy is on the rise, as documented by the findings of ISTAT, the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT, 2005) and by the Italian Foundation for Voluntary Service (Frisanco, 2001): nationwide data indicate that since 2001 there has been a 14.9% increase in the number of men and women who donate their time, and that volunteers now total around 4 million.Young adults (18–30 years of age) account for 36.7%. Thanks to this commitment, the number of voluntary associations has grown by 152% since 1995, from 8,343 to 21,021 groups now providing services to approximately 8 million people. Psychologists have investigated the phenomena associated with voluntarism and young adults, focusing attention on motivational patterns (Marta, Guglielmetti Pozzi, 2006; Pearce, 1993; Wymer, 1998),