4.4 Needs of self-actualization To explore whether older adults’ self-actualization is realized through studying in the UA, I interviewed teachers about what they have done to support students’ actions and students about their voluntary and other ways to actualize themselves. Through data analysis, I notice that after attending the UA older adults are more likely to take voluntary works than before, and the UA is making efforts to encourage social participation.
Teachers
Complying with the spirit of the white paper of The Development of China’s Undertakings for the Aged (2006) and The 12th Five-Year Plan for the Development of China’s Undertakings for the Aged (2011), the UA makes effort to encourage and support older students’ social participation. …show more content…
A certain department for students’ social participation is set up to support older students to do the voluntary works successfully. Teaching staff is appointed to contact museums and community centers to look for volunteer vacancies, invite human resources to give talks about how pass the volunteer selection and how to perform well in the voluntary, and provides consulting and technological support to assist volunteers and protects their rights in the process.
Teacher A: We try to provide students with opportunities to fulfill their value and care about their demands and difficulties in the voluntaries. A student, who is interested in local history and Archeology, told us that he wanted to be a volunteer guide in the museum and told visitors what he knew about the city. We offered him a targeted training to help him get the position. Finally his dream came true, and he enjoys the voluntary very much and shares his experience with us proudly. On the other side, the UA supports older students to give voluntary performance and warmth-giving activities to benefit residents in local communities and rural areas. Teacher B mentioned that the UA organized the choir and the dancing group to give performance voluntarily in the festival ceremonies to enrich community residences’ …show more content…
Participants evaluated voluntaries and warmth-giving activities as acceptable and preferable ways to actualize their value. They mentioned that they started to take part in these activities after attending the UA. Due to the volunteer promotions in the UA, like-minded older students gathered to organize warmth-giving activities and to contribute their experience and passions in the society.
Firstly, older adults actualize their value with the help of the UA. Older students start to realize that taking volunteer works is a way to actualize their value from the voluntary promotion in the UA. With a series of training provided by the UA, some of the older students win the opportunities to be the volunteers in the museum or community service centers to contribute their knowledge and passion. On the other hand, older students actualize their value in giving performance and organizing warmth-giving activities in communities and rural areas supported by the
Teachers
Complying with the spirit of the white paper of The Development of China’s Undertakings for the Aged (2006) and The 12th Five-Year Plan for the Development of China’s Undertakings for the Aged (2011), the UA makes effort to encourage and support older students’ social participation. …show more content…
A certain department for students’ social participation is set up to support older students to do the voluntary works successfully. Teaching staff is appointed to contact museums and community centers to look for volunteer vacancies, invite human resources to give talks about how pass the volunteer selection and how to perform well in the voluntary, and provides consulting and technological support to assist volunteers and protects their rights in the process.
Teacher A: We try to provide students with opportunities to fulfill their value and care about their demands and difficulties in the voluntaries. A student, who is interested in local history and Archeology, told us that he wanted to be a volunteer guide in the museum and told visitors what he knew about the city. We offered him a targeted training to help him get the position. Finally his dream came true, and he enjoys the voluntary very much and shares his experience with us proudly. On the other side, the UA supports older students to give voluntary performance and warmth-giving activities to benefit residents in local communities and rural areas. Teacher B mentioned that the UA organized the choir and the dancing group to give performance voluntarily in the festival ceremonies to enrich community residences’ …show more content…
Participants evaluated voluntaries and warmth-giving activities as acceptable and preferable ways to actualize their value. They mentioned that they started to take part in these activities after attending the UA. Due to the volunteer promotions in the UA, like-minded older students gathered to organize warmth-giving activities and to contribute their experience and passions in the society.
Firstly, older adults actualize their value with the help of the UA. Older students start to realize that taking volunteer works is a way to actualize their value from the voluntary promotion in the UA. With a series of training provided by the UA, some of the older students win the opportunities to be the volunteers in the museum or community service centers to contribute their knowledge and passion. On the other hand, older students actualize their value in giving performance and organizing warmth-giving activities in communities and rural areas supported by the