Open AccessVolunteering to Help People with Disabilities and Less Mobile People in Transport Higher Education Institutions
Author(s) -
Nadezhda Vsevolodovna Gruver,
О. М. Землина,
Р. К. Назарова
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mir transporta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1992-3252
DOI - 10.30932/1992-3252-2021-19-246-258
Subject(s) - incentive , psychology , public relations , value (mathematics) , personality , medical education , point (geometry) , disabled people , pedagogy , applied psychology , social psychology , political science , medicine , life style , geometry , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , economics , microeconomics
The objective of the study was to examine the impact of organisation of volunteer movement on solving of the University tasks and on motivation of the students, particularly considering the sustainable development goals. The attention has been focused on the analysis of the mechanism and methods of implementing the capacity of volunteer movement, from the point of view of possibilities of forming socially significant qualities and value orientations in students that correspond to the needs of society and development of the transport complex, as week as the skills of legal culture and behaviour of future transport employees. A conclusion is drawn about the need to use the opportunities of volunteering as a means of self-development of the student’s personality. The study was particularly dedicated to examining the experience of the Resource Training and Methodological Centre for Training Disabled Persons and Persons with Disabilities created and operating in Russian University of Transport, main directions of increasing the efficiency of activities to create necessary conditions for accessibility of higher education for persons with disabilities in transport universities. Social survey allowed to reveal and assess the correlation of motivation and interest of participants in volunteer movement in training on the programs offered at Russian University of Transport and in participating in volunteering since most important incentives spread among the students comprise desire to help people to feel needed, as well as the desire to master new skills and acquire competences.