In order to make school camping programs educationally more effective, teachers, school administrators and educational policy-makers should be provided with data on the important issues of conducting school camping programs. Some of these issues include goals for school camping programs and constraints in conducting such programs and knowledge and value perception of teachers and school administrators concerning school camping programs. However, little research has been obtained to get empirical data on these issues. The purposes of this study were to: (1) diagnose teacher and school administrator attitudes toward the value of outdoor education and school camping and skill level necessary for conducting outdoor education and school camping programs, (2) identify broad goals and program objectives for school camping as well as constraining factors based on the teacher and school administrator opinions, (3) ascertain variables that influence teacher and school administrator attitudes toward the outdoor education and school camping. Among one thousand fifty questionnaires sent, seven hundred thirty-three were returned and seven hundred twenty three responses were analyzed by ANOVA, MANOVA, and Factor Analysis. The results and conclusions of this study can be summarized as follows: (1) In general, teachers and school administrators are quite positive toward the value of outdoor education and school camping. (2) Teachers and school administrators are not equipped with knowledge and skills related to outdoor education and school camping. (3) Five sets of broad goals were extracted through Factor Analysis and all of them were considered desirable as the goals for school camping. However, teachers and school administrators prefer the goal "To improve human relationships" to other goals. (4) Seven constraining factors were identified through Factor Analysis. Among the seven constraining factors, "Administrative difficulties and teacher inconvenience" was considered the most constraining factors. (5) Several variables were found to influence teacher and school administrator attitudes toward outdoor education and school camping.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-8039 |
| Date | 01 January 1991 |
| Creators | Han, Eun Sok |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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