The purpose of this study is to find out the reality and awareness of lifelong education and examine and analyze the demand of lifelong education for adolescents as to understand adolescents correctly, obtain data for formation of desirable adolescent...
The purpose of this study is to find out the reality and awareness of lifelong education and examine and analyze the demand of lifelong education for adolescents as to understand adolescents correctly, obtain data for formation of desirable adolescent leisure culture, and obtain basic data for lifelong education programs which adolescents will take part in and is demanded by this age.
For this purpose, study questions were set as follows.
First, what is the reality of adolescents' leisure activity?
Second, what is the satisfaction level of adolescents' leisure activity?
Third, how is the necessity of adolescents' leisure activity and what are the requirements?
Fourth, how is the adolescents' awareness of lifelong education ?
Fifth, what lifelong(study) programs and program types do the adolescents hope to have?
To answer these questions, a survey was conducted among 666 male and female high school students in Eup and Myeon areas of Namyangju City in the northern Gyeonggido and in Anyang City in the southern Gyeonggio.
To find out the general characteristics of study subjects, frequency analysis was conducted, and to find out the differences by the moderator variables of gender, grade, school type, and academic achievement, the cross analysis was conducted. The analysis findings can be summarized as follows.
First, the adolescents (high school students) were found to have mostly under one to two hours of leisure time during the weekdays, and over seven to eight during the weekends. Differences by the school type were found; especially humanity type high school students were found to have much less leisure time than vocational type high school students. This indicates that humanity type highschool students have much leisure time due to overburdened school work and life focused on college entrance.
Second, as for the satisfaction level, most students were found to be satisfied, while a number of humanity type high school students showed to have dissatisfaction. The people who adolescents spend leisure time with were mostly found to be friends, and a quarter were found to spend it alone.
Third, the types and wish types of adolescents' leisure activity were mostly hobby and recreational activities. As to necessary leisure facilities, they preferred recreational facilities such as theatres, singing clubs, and so on. Besides, they showed diverse interest in playgrounds, parks, spntes facilities, c tping facilities, and so on. They wanted to have sufficient leisure time as a factor for desirable leisure activity.
Fourth, adolescents' awareness of lifelong education was found to be moderate. However, they did not join many events such as lifelong education festival. As to those who raised awareness of lifelong education among them, their teachers comprised the most. This indicates teachers are well aware of lifelong education.
Fifth, regarding necessity and requirements of program contents and implementation for adolescents' lifelong education, most adolescents answered lifelong was necessary. Especially, humanity type highschool students regarded its necessity higher than vocational type highschool students. As to program contents, students preferred education about health, and as to program education type, they preferred club activity within the workplace. Next, they mostly preferred education about information technology for the contents and education via media such TV, and books for the type.
On the basis of the above results, we would like to propose the following. Most adolescents in our society do not have sufficient time for leisure activity, and are not provided with guide for desirable leisure activity. Therefore, in order that they can have an opportunity of recreation by relaxing, and enjoying leisure and self-development through spare time, they need to be provided with adequate leisure guide and time.
And, to raise awareness of importance of lifelong education among them, and to meet their demand in various angles, diverse appropriate and realistic education programs need to be developed. Therefore, to invigorate lifelong education, systematic and sub-divided studies are required.