| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 98 === This research aims to explore the motivation, journey and challenges of the new immigrant volunteers of the Learning Center for New Immigrants in Taoyuan County. Participants of this research included six new immigrant volunteers and three school administrators who were responsible for the voluntary work. The research was conducted by the means of interviews, Participatory observations and document analysis. Based on the literature review and research findings, some conclusions were found as follows:
1. The motivation of the new immigrant volunteers is to meet personal needs, to help others, to repay society with enthusiasm, to be encouraged by surrounded people, to spend spare time, to be attracted by the characteristics of the organization or its members.
2. The new immigrants after the volunteers involved in voluntary services into multi-variabled interaction, the family's support, the living area expanded, increasing learning opportunities, and enhance self-confidence and cetainty and emotional changes and give vent to other aspects.
3. The challenges faced by the new immigrant volunteers included several aspects of the organization members,organization, the target clients, the master unit, and themselves.
According to the conclusions mentioned above, some implications and suggestions for the new immigrants volunteers are made as follows：
1. They should seize the opportunities to learn during their voluntary work.
2. They should understand the distribution and collaboration of the voluntary work.
3. They should share their own experience to encourage others to join the voluntary work.
4. They should empower each other to unit the team.
5. They should cultivate the view of the multicultural education.
The following are some suggestions for the Learning Center for New Immigrants in Taoyuan County：
1. The center should assist the new immigrant volunteers to establish an organizational structure system.
2. The center needs to schedule volunteer training programs regularly to reduce the difficulties and challenges of the voluntary work.
3. The center ought to develop the administrative competence for the new immigrant volunteers to solve the problem of inadequate man power.
4. Encourage the central's admnistraive staff involved in education of new immigrants' learning or courses, and reduce the communication difficulties.
5. Open the personal communication courses and studying, it will be reduce volunteer and poor communication between the clients.
6. The center should better promote their work to encourage the new immigrants to join the activities and learning courses.
7. The center can provide systematic programs to strengthen the confidence and ability of the new immigrant volunteers
8. The center must increase the interaction between the new immigrant volunteers and other associations or the mainstream culture.
On the basis of the findings in this research, some suggestions are provided for the future research:
1. Future research could explore various issues related to the Learning Center for New Immigrants or the new immigrant volunteers who provides services in other types of voluntary work.
2. Future research could study the new immigrant volunteers from different nationalities or family members to explore their point of views regarding voluntary work.
|
|---|
