This paper develops a conceptual framework to understand the value of an increasing number of university study programmes that send students to the global south to learn through volunteering. We ask what determines the benefit that these activities bring to the host community. To understand this, we conceptualise these activities as student volunteerism and propose a framework to understand the value of these activities based on a previously developed framework for volunteer tourism. We examine a single case study of a minor programme in a Dutch university, exploring how course design and student selection affect student behaviour as an antecedent step to creating student benefits. We identify six kinds of factors that appear to promote ‘deeper’ (better) contributions and argue that these six factors require further analysis to better realise university contributions to societal development in Global South contexts.

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理解学生志愿服务的概念框架

本文开发了一个概念框架，以了解越来越多的大学学习项目的价值，这些项目将学生送到南半球通过志愿服务学习。我们询问是什么决定了这些活动给东道社区带来的好处。为了理解这一点，我们将这些活动概念化为学生志愿服务，并基于先前开发的志愿者旅游框架提出了一个框架来理解这些活动的价值。我们研究了荷兰大学一个辅修课程的单个案例研究，探索课程设计和学生选择如何影响学生行为，作为创造学生利益的先决步骤。