Author(s)

Qianhan Xia¹, Xinming Han²

¹Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK.
²University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

“International Volunteer Tourism” was born in Europe and America in 1920. It has a history of nearly 100 years, which experienced a rich evolution from simple initial scale to gradual maturity and internationalization. While vigorously promoting the development of education in poverty areas, world cultural exchanges, as well as world peace, the problem of International Volunteer Tourism has emerged, including high mobility of volunteers and instable local teaching quality. The author stayed in Malaysia for a week in charging of volunteer work, and researched by field investigation and described the severe living conditions and poor education of local students in Mabul Island. There are some problems in the development of international volunteers in Mabul Island, such as the high mobility of volunteers, incoherent teaching contents, and uneven teaching level. By analyzing the reasons and exploring solutions, the author puts forward three suggestions. First, strengthen publicity, combine government coercion and incentive policies. Second, advocate UNESCO to set up a unified teaching material and teaching plan for international volunteers worldwide. Third, encourage UNESCO and people who support the volunteer organization to set up foundations to relieve the financial pressure, as well as improving the quality of teaching in underdeveloped areas.

International Volunteer Tourism, Mobility, Teaching Quality, Improvement

Xia, Q. and Han, X. (2019) Research on the Present Situation and Countermeasures of Teaching Quality of International Volunteer Tourism Project in Mabul Island. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 7, 254-264. doi: 10.4236/jss.2019.711018.