Abstract
This study was conducted to develop education programs and to come up with some successful implementation plans for the National Mountaineering School(NMS) due to be established at Sokcho-si, Gangwon-do. To achieve these purposes, the education programs of domestic and foreign mountaineering schools and relevant data were collected and analyzed, and a Delphi survey of 10 mountaineering education experts was conducted through e-mail, and an internet questionnaire survey was carried out of 1,133 mountaineers visiting mountains more than two times per year. The main results of the study were that the fundamental educational goal of NMS's was able to be identified as 'to bring up those creative-thinking-oriented mountaineers, equipped with sound mountaineering activities and cultures, who can lead the future society of forest well-bing' and that mountaineering education was categorized into 5 major domains such as mountaineering skills, mountaineering equipment, mountain environment and safety, mountaineering culture, and pedagogy of mountaineering, each of which was subdivided into a set of specific subject matters. The survey results revealed that ordinary mountaineers were recognizing education courses regarding mountain environment and safety as the most needed programs for the NMS.
Translated title of the contribution | A Study on Developing and Implementing Education Programs for the National Mountaineering School |
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Original language | Korean |
Pages (from-to) | 201-214 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | 한국체육학회지 |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - Jul 2016 |