Learning and Volunteering Abroad for Development

<p>Learning/volunteer abroad programmes provide opportunities for cross-cultural understanding partnership-building and cooperative development but there are also significant structural challenges and inequality of opportunity issues that result from these partnerships between host organizations in the Global South and learning/volunteer abroad for development (LVA4D) participants from the Global North. <i>Learning</i> <i>and Volunteering Abroad for Development</i> aims to unpack the complex benefits and disadvantages of learning/volunteer abroad programmes using insights from the volunteers who travel abroad and the communities who host them. </p><p>Based on empirical research within both volunteer and host communities this book provides students and scholars with an alternative framework for a more careful and nuanced analysis of international volunteering programmes highlighting ways to improve critical reflection development outcomes and intercultural competence. </p><p>Supported by a website with additional learning resources this book<i> </i>is an integral resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in going abroad as well as for scholars or development professionals who are leading or researching such programmes. </p>