Volunteering as practical human activity

Toward community education

Abstract

Volunteering attracts people’s attention these days and this trend concerns modern and postmodern human history. In addition, the fundamental existence of human life should be reexamined through the expansion of volunteering and this creates new relationships among human beings toward a new era. In this article, we discuss the following issues on volunteering: Historical perspective of volunteer activity and its contemporary significance, problems with volunteering, i.e., motivation, sharing of understanding about social problems, spontaneity, transformation of division of labor, and usefulness of the volunteer. Furthermore, a tentative assumption for community education, which has strong tie with volunteers, was proposed.