Abstract
As of the economic and environmental issues, the importance of the various services provided by forests is recognized and industries related to forests are considered as the core social impacts such as the green growth and the job opportunities. Therefore the analysis of forest related qualification for present and future study was implemented to identify its status and outlooks. Literature reviews, existed data manipulation and the expert opinion processes were employed to analyze the current status and outlooks and to predict future demands of the qualification. The study findings of the forest related qualification numbers were identified as 12 national competency qualifications, 6 government level qualifications and 20 civil qualifications which are documented as present items. The highly spot lighted qualifications were wood nurse and therapist, forest therapist and guide, forest business meister, care-taker on prevention & control of forest pests, respectively reached a high consensus to be priorities qualification kinds developed by panelists, and they predicted four qualifications should be positive demands in the forest labor market, government investment and work force development. The research suggestions were made that the forest qualifications system should be needed as having control office and the civil qualifications should be studied as restructured to cope with forestry fields labor market and their trends of demand and supply.
Translated title of the contribution | Current Status and Outlooks for Forest Related Qualifications in Korea |
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Original language | Korean |
Pages (from-to) | 199-218 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | 실과교육연구 |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2014 |