The meaning of happiness in a person's life have been interesting for many philosophers and psychologists from very long time ago and it is still in present. Especially the topic of OECD international forum was also 'happiness' and improving 'the qual...
The meaning of happiness in a person's life have been interesting for many philosophers and psychologists from very long time ago and it is still in present. Especially the topic of OECD international forum was also 'happiness' and improving 'the quality of life'. It emphasized we need to overcome the economy-oriented development concept, found the new society-development concept, Gross National Happiness: GNH should be introduced free from the emphasis of the national income per head and we need to highlight the happiness of people. Like this the quality of life is more emphasis on than simply economic richness and especially the social interest about personal happiness is increasing with the five-day workweek in Korea.
In 21st century of knowledge-based society, life-long education becomes important factor for improving happiness.
Also as the frequency of participation of adult learner in lifelong education is higher, they choose the program and participate on education by themselves, enter the education situation with various life experience, and have specific, direct education objective and motive. In the flow of lifelong education the analysis is attempted to understand study tendency or study activities of adult learners more systematically, it says that the happiness, knowledge, behavior change of learners after participation on study lead not only personal development but improving education of people and level of consciousness in society.
This study will find the lifelong education participation form aimed at adult learners who are participated in lifelong program, apprehend the general tendency about happiness with lifelong education program participation, and positively investigate the difference in happiness depending on the character of adult learner and participation form. It will propose the base and reference for the choice of program for lifelong program participants and lifelong program management like learner management and instruction for people in charge and managers of lifelong learning centers.
The method of study was as followings.
First, the personal background factor, participation form factor and happiness factor were investigated with literature research.
Second, with convenience random sampling of nonprobability sampling, I chose the schools and regional life long learning centers which Daegu superintendent of education pointed as 'life long learning center' among 437 of school lifelong learning centers, 33 of libraries, community relief centers, etc lifelong learning centers to analyze the difference in happiness depending on personal background character and participation form, and carried out a survey targeting adult learners who are participated in life long education program in Aug~ Sep. 2013. Among 300 of question investigation 287 were used except 13 of faithless and improper questionnaires. Collected questionnaires were taken statistics with SPSS 19.0 for windows.
The analysis method was T-test, ANOVA analysis for both research problems 1,2.
The results of the research through the analysis were as followings.
First in the research problem I of difference in happiness depending on personal background(gender, age, the highest level of education, job, a month average family income, region) of adult learners who are participating on lifelong education program, the hypothesis of difference in happiness depending on the gender, the highest level of education, job, a month average family income was chosen, and the research about region was dismissed.
Second in the research problem II of difference in happiness depending on the participation form(the learning center, period, motive, experience, program contents, the number of program, the fee of program, application of the result), the research about the number of programs was only dismissed.
With the result, the guideline for improving happiness depending on the lifelong program participation form is as followings.
The lifelong education program for adult learners should discriminate the learner management and instruction. The programs with 3 month basis should be divided by levels as elementary, intermediate, advanced levels, the intensive course should be organized for motive induction of learners, and continuous participation should be encouraged by special management as education level gets higher. For this the various and specialized programs should be offered such as study groups.
The participation on lifelong education programs will improve the personal abilities, and it will be the main role for awareness raising about lifelong education program participation. As the education community, It will also motivate the interaction and sharing between home and a society, and it should contribute the social development. Also various programs reflecting the character of learning centers and the need of learners should be planned, the participation on various education events and activities of schools and regional society will lead the promotion of useful personal resources, and they will be the main members who will solve the various problems of society. Therefore the personal resources will be applied in lifelong education part.