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Please complete this form after finishing your internship in the voluntary work!
Learning through service and volunteerism work means acquiring information through personal experience. The aim is to reflect on one’s own learning and involvement. Therefore, absorbing new information through voluntary work is a teaching and learning strategy combining the students’ volunteering with a structured learning process. In summary, it is an educational solution uniting academic data accrual and the development of working life communities.
The purpose of this questionnaire is to help you reflect on the learning which has taken place during your internship within voluntary work. The results of the survey are used for developing internship in the voluntary sector. The survey data will be stored and reported in a way which leaves the individual student unidentifiable.
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Have you participated in voluntary activities before your studies in Social Services? Where, when and for how long?
Have you ever participated in any associations or NGO work (non-governmental organization)? Where, when and for how long?
Have you participated in training sessions for future voluntary workers before studying in the Degree Programme in Social Services? Where, when and for how long?
Choose from the following:
As a volunteer, I mainly worked among:
How did you work – the form of voluntary work:
Did you participate in training courses for voluntary work arranged by a corresponding organization (e.g. the Kalliola Settlement, the Finnish Red Cross)? What, where, when, for how long?
How often did you work as a volunteer during the week?
Additional information:
How long did you work as a volunteer in the same task?
Were you involved in the organization’s supervisory meetings (meetings with individuals vs. group counselling) during the work placement within the voluntary sector?
Additional information
Rate on a scale of 1 to 4 the following statements about the voluntary activities related to your work placement.
Grading Scale:
If you took took advantage of the theoretical knowledge achieved during my studies in Social Services, explain how?:
If you think you will be able to utilize the experience of voluntary work in your theory studies, explain how?:
Learning goals of the internhip in voluntary work
The student gets acquainted with voluntary and civil society activities in the field of social services. Students plan and implement their internship. They take their occupational specialization into account and strengthen their professional expertise. The aim of the student’s activities is to promote justice, human rights, equality and sustainable development. Course contents
The student knows the importance, principles and practices of voluntary work in the social field. The internship is carried out during the studies and according to the student's own work plan. It can for example be civic activities, volunteering and/or peer support/mentoring activities.
What did you learn (in relation to the general objectives) within the voluntary sector?
What personal learning goals did you have?
Rate your achievement of the learning goals: What did you learn about yourself (strengths versus areas of development)?
On a scale of 1 to 4, evaluate the following knowledge, skills and attitudes within the area of voluntary activities. Base your assessment on how you feel that the respective information, skills and attitudes were developed in voluntary work:
If you feel that you've gained new special skills (e.g. manual skills). Which?
What forms of learning and reflection did you use in your voluntary work?
What do you think was the most important form of reflection considering your learning experience? Why?
Continue the following sentences
I was successful in ...
I learned most when ...
My commitment to volunteer work was ...
When considering your period of voluntary work, what kind of guidance and sharing of experiences would you have found useful?
What is the importance of voluntary activities in social and health care?
Are you going to continue to engage in voluntary activities?
Other feedback:
Evaluation has been created with the support of these rescources::
Service-Learning and Research Scheme: The Lingnan Model. Service-Learning (OSL). Lingnan University. 2006.
Eyler, J. and Dwight, E. Giles. Jr. 1999. Where is the Learning in Service Learning? Jossey-Bass. A Wiley Imprint. San Francisco.