The aims of this research are to explore the difference between the values of academic high school students and those of technical high school students, to investigate the factors which cause those differences, and to offer the fundamental data for de...
The aims of this research are to explore the difference between the values of academic high school students and those of technical high school students, to investigate the factors which cause those differences, and to offer the fundamental data for developing kid guiding value-system, of high school students.
The samples of this research are the second-year students in high school in Pusan Metropolitan city; 162 students who attend two academic high schools for boys, 168 students who attend high schools for girls, 158 students who attend technical high school for boys, and 161 students who attend technical high school students for girls - 649 students in total.
This research was based on questionnaires. The research fields consist of the five section; the value of life, the value of home, the value of heterosexuality, the value of school, the value of society and nation.
The percentage of each item response was analysed The method of χ^(2) verification was used in order to explore the statistical significance according to the gender and the each school character.
The results of this research are followings;
Firstly, the value of values systems for the high school students in Pusan Metroplitan city have been changed the propensity to traditional value-orientations into the propensity to realistic, individual and reasonable value orientations.
Secondly, the propensity for each section is as follows;
1) The value of life: Students have the propensity to enjoy their lives ather than to work hard and achieve something.
2) The value of home: They have the propensity to attach the primary importance on the horizontal family relationship which underlies the affection and the mutual appreciation.
3) The value of hetrosexuality: The traditional one has disappeared. They have the propensity to regard the relation with the opposite sex as the natural thing.
4) The value of school : They have the propensity to consider the school the place of initiating of knowledge and the center of cultivating the social adaptation, not the place of all-round education. They have the average reverence of their teachers and schools.
5) The value of society and nation : They have the self-pride as the Korean people but mostly possess the negative viewpoint about the society and the country. They also cherish the future-oriented nationalism that they expect the recognized Korea in the international world.
Thirdly, the results of the views of values according to the factors are as follows; The students in academic high school have the willful, progressive and selfish propensity and the students in technical high schools have the random, present and open propensity. The male students have the traditional and conservatory propensity and the female students have the reasonable, present-valuable propensity.