The purpose of this study is to clarify the mountaineering experience in each stage of adolescent`s outdoor training on the basis of phenomenological sociology. In so doing, qualitative methodology was adopted. The participants in this study were 15 a...
The purpose of this study is to clarify the mountaineering experience in each stage of adolescent`s outdoor training on the basis of phenomenological sociology. In so doing, qualitative methodology was adopted. The participants in this study were 15 adolescents chosen by purposeful sampling, and data were collected by self-initiated tape recording, experiential description and analysis, in-depth interview and participant observation. In the analysis of data, category and typification were formed utilizing the phenomenological consepts of hyle, noema and noeis, which are phenomenological method. The category and typification were explained on the basis of Schutz`s phenomenological sociology. Main Results can be summarized as follows.
Mountaineering experience in each stage is as follows:
Mountaineering preparation stage - In this stage the adolescents participating outdoor mountaineering training typically have expectations and worries. Motive of participation consists of self-denial, enjoyment, hardship, and admiration. Outdoor life have participants share wishes, pride, fellowship, and home-missing.
Mountaineering stage - In this stage, participants experience expectation, nervousness, and determination. Mountaineering experience consists of self-denial, enjoyment, hardship, fidgets, pride, admiration. Outdoor life have participate experience fellowship.
Summit mountaineering, climbing up and down stage - This stage shows the same typification of mountaineering stage. Participants have mountaineering expectation, mountaineering experience and outdoor life. Mountaineering expectation is such as wish and determination. Mountaineering experience is such as nervousness, self-denial, determination, hardship, enjoyment, self-realization, and admiration. Through outdoor life they experience fellowship.
Break in mountaineering stage - In this stage, adolescent`s participants typically experience enjoyment of mountaineering and rest. They feel reminiscence, pride, fellowship, and admiration. Break in mountaineering provide them with freedom and happiness.
Finish of mountaineering stage - In this stage, participants usually experience yearning for home and confusion of mind. They feel wanting, confidence, reminiscence, and fellowship. Coming back home have them feel yearning, strange and uneasy.