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Volunteer Work and Informal Learning

A Conceptual Discussion

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Volunteer Work, Informal Learning and Social Action

Part of the book series: The Knowledge Economy and Education ((KNOW,volume 1))

Abstract

Informal learning and volunteer work are two dynamics that coexist everyday in communities throughout the world. However, we still know comparatively little about the nature of these dynamics. While an abundant literature exists on work, only a small portion of this literature deals with volunteer work. Likewise, only a minority of the vast literature on learning explores dynamics of informal learning. In the same way that volunteer work has a marginal place in the study of work; informal learning has a marginal place in the literature on learning. The chapters included in this book deal explicitly with the learning dimension of volunteer work, a topic that has not yet attracted the interest of many researchers. Nonetheless, we suggest that the topic is important because, as we will argue in the following pages, both volunteer work and informal learning are present in our daily lives and necessary for the reproduction of our daily lives.

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Duguid, F., Mündel, K., Schugurensky, D. (2013). Volunteer Work and Informal Learning. In: Volunteer Work, Informal Learning and Social Action. The Knowledge Economy and Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-233-4_2

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