Scoutmasters’ Perception of Methods and Problems of Character Education

• Main Authors: GUO,JHIH LING, 郭芷菱
• Other Authors: 呂建政
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53509191240132743424

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系在職進修碩士班 === 100 === The purpose of this research is to understand the implement methods and difficulties of character education of scoutmasters in scouting movement, as well as compare the differences of content, methods, and difficulties between different backgrounds of scoutmasters. The author used the “Methods and Difficulties of Scoutmasters doing Character Education Questionnaire” as research tool to do survey research. The research subjects are those scoutmasters who completed the full registrations (scout troop, scout staff and scout members) in Taiwan in 2010. The author divided the subjects into four groups by geographical factors, such as northern, middle, southern and eastern, with judgmental sampling method sending 244 questionnaires. There were 166 valid questionnaires and the effective response rate was 68%. The author used SPSS 19.0 software making description statistics, t-test and ANOVA statistical analysis. The result of this research and simply sorted into the following 5 phases: (1) The most frequent content of character education in this research is honor, and follows with service, helping others; (2) The most frequent method of implying in character education by scoutmasters in this research is “Environmental Construction”, and follows with modeling and service practice; (3) The most frequent timing factor of character education in this research is troop meeting, and follows with camping and other. Among “other factors”, service activities are the most frequent; (4)The most frequent difficulties of implying character education are social conduct, administration of troop affairs and attitude of scoutmasters; (5) In different background factors, different gender, age, years of being a scouter, years in scouting, education level, scout professional training , character education credits, and different sizes, types and locations of scout troops will affect the result of different point of view in contents, implement methods and difficulties among the scoutmasters. In final, according to the research results, the author makes recommendations to National Scout Organization, scoutmasters and future studies.