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DIVERGENCES AND SIMULATIONOF THE COMMUNITY IN AN EDUCATIONAL VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE NORTE-SUR IN A GHANAIAN POPULATION

Abstract

Globalisation, in the way we know it at the beginning of the 21st century, allows the emergence of new educational practices that seem to be in line with the Roussonian tradition of free education and with the formation of a global awareness of the social issues that should be prioritised by all. This responsible awareness is present in the history of the UN, as well as in each of its reports – and its agencies –. In recent years, volunteering has added to initiatives promoted institutionally at different levels, thus giving rise to different conceptions in this regard. Although the Global Volunteering Report, published in 2011, is not explicit in showing this diversity of approaches, a specific practice, in a field of voluntary work in which young people in the world pay for helping to build a school library and carry out a prevention campaign on HIV/AIDS in a Ghanaian population, may reveal some disagreements between young people who, from different backgrounds, have different perspectives. As these differences cannot be resolved, given the great differences in life paths and experience, they are ignored by rituals of mutual respect and integration, in which participants act – sometimes without success – as if there were equality of status regardless of their cultural background. By observing one of these experiences of volunteering north-south – or voluntary – it can be seen that the lives of young participants are not affected in their value systems, but every one who benefits in their way (materially or spiritually).

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