The government has pooled its resources to promote lifelong learning, considering the fact that lifelong learning is not only a deciding factor in the era of knowledge economy but also the most efficient way in its cultivation of democracy among the general public. In the study, I defined the scope of lifelong learning as three categories: Master, Master-work-experience, and other correspondence courses like those offered by National Open University. The population of this study is all the official in Penghu County. 347 subjects were surveyed and analyzed using the software SPSS 10.0. The purpose of this study, besides exploring the motivation and various barriers for the official in Penghu under the current government lifelong learning policy, is to understand whether the existing learning channels meet the needs and live up to the expectations of official in their pursuit of lifelong learning. The results of the study are for the reference of our government in its making of lifelong learning policy and the creation of a better learning environment.
The findings are as follows:
1.The learning motivations of official for in-service training, broadly speaking, are (in descending order): further pursuit of education or personal interest, advancement in the career, participation in social service, and development of interpersonal relationship.
2.As a whole, the barriers facing official in their pursuit of further study are classified, in descending order, into institutional factors, circumstantial factors, intentional factors, and informative factors.
3.The official who fail to complete their study are due to (in descending order) circumstantial factors, institutional factors, personal concerns, and teaching factors.
4.Basically, official from different backgrounds show significant differences in terms of their respective motivations, barriers they encounter, and reasons for the termination of study. And among the many factors affecting the willingness to study, the education level seems not to be significantly correlated. As for the termination of study, the three factors¢w¢wage, marital status, and family monthly income are not significantly correlated.
Suggestions are provided for in-service official, government policymaking mechanism, extension education environment and resources providers, and further studies based the findings of the study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0626106-232204 |
| Date | 26 June 2006 |
| Creators | Hwang, Shuenn-Fa |
| Contributors | Po-Wen Cheng, Ying-Fang Huang, Jih-Hwa Wu, Tung-Wei Hung |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0626106-232204 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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