A Study About Volunteerism Nurturing Of College Students

With the changing of social development demands, volunteer activities of college students are also widely carried out to produce a certain influence. However, volunteer activities nowadays are nothing like normalization, with the deficiencies of intermittence, being perfunctory and blindness. It has not yet truly integrated into economic and social life, let alone become social morality, form a regular action and become a way of life. This shows that the inner strength of volunteer activities and the significance of the volunteerism, especially the latter, haven't been fully understood. Therefore, we need to be concerned with spiritual power and ideological support of the activities when it comes to the volunteer activities of college students. Volunteer activities will be vigorous and beneficial only if it is become the spiritual power. Volunteerism, with the value of "dedication, friendliness, cooperation and advancement", covers personal responsibility for their own and to the society. It's the embodiment of humanistic values, sociality nature of individual, and spirit of citizenship. It's the heritage of Chinese traditional culture which is advocated by modern people. In the age of advancing and enriching the spirit of Leifeng, it is further necessary to understand the historical meaning of volunteerism. Volunteerism will also help to rebuild the moral standard and promote the development of economy, politics, society and culture. This essay explores the new application of classical theory in the new era based on basic tenets of Marxism. And it gains a great deal of enlightenment from reviewing the practical experience and theoretical discussion of major countries and regions on the nurturing of volunteerism. Last but not least, it concludes the problems and influencing factors of volunteerism development by syncretizing collage students' opinion on it., thereby it offers some suggestion for the future development.