This study aims to understand adolescents volunteer activities's actual condition and adolescents's satisfaction to make data for activating volunteer activities.
Followings are questions in order to fulfill this study's goal.
First, How was like ad...
This study aims to understand adolescents volunteer activities's actual condition and adolescents's satisfaction to make data for activating volunteer activities.
Followings are questions in order to fulfill this study's goal.
First, How was like adolescents's volunteer activities?
Second, How adolescents recognize volunteer activities?
Third, How adolescents satisfied with volunteer activities?
Fourth, How to activate adolescents volunteer activities?
This study include 620 students in Seosan City and Dangjin Gun and these 620 students classified into 300 middle school students (male: 142, female: 158) and 304 high school students(male: 150, female: 154).
A method for this study involve questionnaire which researcher made and this questionnaire are examined by two adolescents volunteer specialists, two youth leaders and an adviser. Questionnaire in this research contain general questions for volunteer work, satisfaction for volunteer activities and solution to activate volunteer activities. This questionnaire was held in Oct 1 to 10, 2008.
An analysis for this study used frequency analysis to understand general questions. Satisfaction and activation of volunteer activities used t-test and chi-squire() by looking both sex and grades.
This study have following conclusion.
First, adolescents's motivation for volunteer activities was to enter school for higher grade and get a job.
Second, adolescents think that volunteer works are helping neighborhood by self-sacrifice.
Third, adolescents's satisfaction for volunteer works shows that volunteer activities are chances to experience and learn new things and to show caring for other people.
These are suggestions for this study.
First, school curriculum should include not only volunteer activities but also human nature education.
Second, various types of volunteer activities should be developed.
Third, special teachers who are in charge of volunteer works or counsel about volunteer activities should be arranged.
Fourth, method for evaluating volunteer works should be improved.
This study shows that we should approach human nature education which is education's major goal through youth's volunteer works. Adolescents should be grown up to be responsible, care for other people and have sense of being part of community. Thus, this study suggest that we should fully understand youth volunteer works and support them.
A thesis submitted to Committee of the Graduate School of Hanseo University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of Philosophy in February, 2009.