| Summary: | 碩士 === 高雄師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 99 === Abstract
The research mainly focuses on the self-directed learning processes of the National Forest Volunteers. There are a total of eight volunteers from Pingtung Forest District office were selected for this research. They were trained for at least one year and had passed three stages of tests before serving as the National Forest Volunteers. Their ages are between 45 and 55 years old.
This research adopted the data collection methods of researcher-as-participant observations, in-depth interviews and analyzed the qualitative data by following the methodology of the Grounded Theory. After analyzing the interviewees’ motives at the primary learning stage, the modes of learning activities, the difficulties and the learning feedbacks such as what they gained during the whole process, some main findings are listed as follows:
1. The Forest Volunteers of self-directed learning motives include three dimensions: personal background, learning motivation, and learning attitude. The personal background factor refers to interest in outdoor sports or relevant activities, having a happy childhood field experience, and the previous job experiences. The academic motivation includes intrinsic orientation and external orientation. The driving forces of the inner are"Self-demand", "Social welfare" and"favorite explanation of the natural environment". Nevertheless, the one must have"a great retirement planning"," volunteer reputation", and "a good public network". The learning attitude divides into"courage to try", "self-responsible", and" persistently carry through to the end".
2. The objective of National Forest's volunteer is to develop self independent learning attitude. When we look more in to it, each volunteer must be well prepared with a great communication skill, able to work independently under pressure, and to provide themselves with some practical experiences. There are two learning stages for the volunteer; the beginning stage and the mature stage. Volunteer should be able to learn and gain more useful information through the whole process and with what they had learnt. At the meantime, it is also important to get instruction from experts to guide them to the correct path.
3. The patterns of the learning problems that volunteers encountered and how they deal with include three categories: "the situational barrier", "the organizational barrier" and "Congenital condition barrier".
4. The standard judgment is based on individual assessment, which is classified as"standard assessment" and "self-learning reflection". The way of learning outcomes assessment consists of three levels:"self assessment", "peer assessment "and " learn from each other"; the way of feedback by field is divided into "daily life", "workplace","community"and "social groups" ; It is important to bear in mind that never stop learning to achieve self-goal. Judges according to two aspects: "the future plan" and "the self-style establishment".
The above mentioned findings are recommended for the learners and the nature of social education groups and museums such as the use of voluntary service units for future improvement and study.
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