My teacher has tweeked my focus question: 'Volunteering or volunteerism: Is there a difference & does it really matter?'
I had trouble understanding how the new question linked to my previous one. I was wondering if you were able to be of assistance?
Your intial question was 'Voluntourism: What are the motivations behind this increasing market? My topic will look at: Why people volunteer? What their expectations are before & after the trip? Has it changed the individual more than it has affected the host community?"
I think your teacher has changed it quite a but, however your intial central focus is still there really.
Your teachers question of: 'Is there a difference?' correlates well with your ' Why people volunteer?' and "what are the motiviations" as you still would need to establish the core of Volunteering with an addtion of volunteerism. Moreso, highlighting the discrepancy/commonalties between them.
The question of "Is there a difference?" correlates well with your "what their expectations are before & after the trip?" and also "motivations" so not much changing here as you can discuss the "differences" in expectation and motivation between volunteerism and volunteering. Here, you could include this question in this chapter, so you wouldn't need to remove it. Add more questions here to accenuate the dif/sim as well, as your question on its own won't support your argument.
The "does it matter" works well with your "has (volunteerism or volunteering) changed the individual more than it has affected the host community?" as you can establish that 'yes it has, or not it hasnt'. From there, you can say due to the differences in change/impact, it does matter blah blah blah. Here, use your highlighted differences in say expectations and what not, to answer this question. Also, add more questions here to answer this optimally as that question on its own wont answer it effectively. Here, investigate the by-product of volunteering and voluntorism. Measure which has a greater impact on community/indviduals. Is this pos/neg? Is this as a result of social change? How so? Questions like this are important. (here you can add many more concepts. This is where you will maximise your marks).
If you're happy with the change, then go for it. If you are not, keep asking your teacher to revist it to ensure both of you are happy with the chosen topic. Dont settle for something you know you dislike.
Also, as I said, ensure you integrate course concepts wherever possible. Concepts such as self, identity, community, values work EXTREMELY well here.