The purpose of the study is to look into how international volunteering
affects the level of college students’ global citizenship and multicultural
acceptability, and to provide the effective plan of global citizenship
education activities through the international volunteering. The major
findings were as follows:
First, there were significant differences with regard to multicutural
acceptability before and after the participation of international volunteering,
whereas significant differences were not found in global citizenship. In
other words, college students were found to have more multicultural
acceptability after the participation of international volunteering. Second,
there were not any significant differences by volunteering program length,
working hour of volunteering in global citizenship or muticultural
acceptability. Third, there were significant differences by gender, grade,
and major, but not by religion and income levels, in global citizenship
and multicultural acceptability.
The implication of the study is that it has shown the empirical evidence
of the effectiveness of college students' international volunteer work. The
study’s findings could be used as a guide to a future international
volunteering program. More empirical studies are needed to investigate the
differences of effectiveness between long-term and short-term international
volunteering.