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Exploring the training needs of community volunteers
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/56924 Exploring the training needs of community volunteers Bester, Suzanne noenkie@hotmail.com Ebersohn, L. (Liesel) Van Staden, Tamarin UCTD Community volunteers Training needs Resource-constrained Counselling Communication skills Community resilience Education theses SDG-01 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2015. The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore and describe the training needs of ten community volunteers from the STAR project in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan area in the Eastern Cape. The STAR project focuses on the manner in which teachers can support resilience in high-risk communities. The project, involves a strengths-based intervention. Based on the outcome of the STAR project, the need arose to transfer existing knowledge and skills to community volunteers in their own and a neighbouring school. The theoretical framework that was employed in this study was the asset-based approach. I followed a qualitative research approach, guided by an interpretivist epistemology. I purposefully selected ten community volunteers who were part of the STAR project, as participants. The data were collected though face to face semi-structured individual interviews with two of the participants and a focus group discussion with the remaining eight participants. The data-collection process assisted in exploring the training needs of the participants. In addition to the individual interviews and the focus group discussion, I employed field notes and audio recordings in the data-collection process. Five main themes emerged from the data, along with twelve subthemes. The five main themes included the following: challenges community volunteers face, responsibilities of a community volunteer, motivations for becoming a community volunteer, the training needs of community volunteers, and how community volunteers cope with the challenges they face when performing their duties. Based on the findings of the study, it is suggested that the training needs of the volunteers, namely to become computer literate, to communicate better, to understand how to counsel members of their communities and the children they work with in their schools, emanate from an overarching training need to be able to cope with the adverse circumstances community volunteers experience as a result of poverty. In essence, this study suggests that the STAR volunteers need training on how to cope with poverty. tm2016 es2026 Educational Psychology MEd Unrestricted SDG-01: No poverty SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities 2016-09-26T06:58:39Z 2016-09-26T06:58:39Z 2016-08-31 2015 Dissertation Van Staden, T 2015, Exploring the training needs of community volunteers, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56924> S2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56924 en © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Community volunteers Training needs Resource-constrained Counselling Communication skills Community resilience Education theses SDG-01 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Exploring the training needs of community volunteers |
| title | Exploring the training needs of community volunteers |
| title_full | Exploring the training needs of community volunteers |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the training needs of community volunteers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the training needs of community volunteers |
| title_short | Exploring the training needs of community volunteers |
| title_sort | exploring the training needs of community volunteers |
| topic | UCTD Community volunteers Training needs Resource-constrained Counselling Communication skills Community resilience Education theses SDG-01 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56924 |