That Magical Power: High School Students’ Camping Service Experiences and Self-Concept Development

Authors

  • Wan Chen Li National Dong Hwa University
  • Mei-Ying Chien National Dong Hwa University

Keywords:

Self-concept, camping service, service learning

Abstract

In Taiwan, the recent education reforms and policies have drawn its focus on transforming ‘’spoon-feeding education’’ to “adaptive education†with the main purpose of cultivating our students to have multiple-competence development. Following such trend, there have been quite a lot of service camps organized for the youth to help them develop communication skills, social responsibilities, positive thinking and self-concept. This study was conducted by adopting a case-study approach with the use of semi-structured interviews with high-school students for data collection. The researcher, a junior college student also as a volunteer serving for a youth camp, has chosen her service summer camp as a research setting to consult the research participants. There were totally four high-school students participating in this research; two females (vocational high-school students) and two males (one general high-school student and one vocational high-school student). Based on the analysis of interview data, it was found: 1. High-school students’ camping service experiences will help them to have a sense of belonging and developing their competence; 2. High-school students’ negative experiences will have an influence on their self-concept; 3. High-school students’ camping service experiences will help them to construct self-concept positively. 

References

• Chang, C. X. (2007). Educational psychology: Theory and practice of three orientations. Taipei, Taiwan: Tung Hua Book.

• Chen, S. C., & Weng, Y. H. (2006). The relationships between Attachment, Explanatory Style and Self-concept of delinquent adolescents. The Archive of Guidance & Counseling, 28, 29-49.

• Chen, Y. N. (2010). The study of service-learning experiences for teenager volunteersï¼A case study of teenager group of ecological interpretation at â—‹â—‹ camp in Changhua county (Master thesis). Retrieved from http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/ccd=0zuPuA/record?r1=1&h1=0

• Cheng, C. C. (2014). The learning experience and growth of participating in service-learning program during summer vacation for high-school students (Master thesis). Retrieved from http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/ccd=06LiuD/record?r1=2&h1=0

• Huang, Y. (2008). Learning from service: Theory and practice of interdisciplinary service learning. Taipei, Taiwan: Hung Yeh.

• Kuo, W. F. (1996). Ego psychology. Taipei, Taiwan: Shta Book.

• Lin, J. P. (2002). A relationship on the self-concept and behavior-problem of the adolescents (Master thesis). Retrieved from http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/ccd=67iiuE/record?r1=1&h1=0

• Li, H. Y. (2015). The youth service-learning activity, organization operation and identity--- A study based on the volunteer group of Chang-Bin catholic church. (Master thesis) Retrieved from http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/ccd=39qNtw/record?r1=1&h1=2

• Lin, W. L. (2012). The transforming power: Exploring the experiences of service learning and commitment to volunteering among urban adolescent (Master thesis). Retrieved from http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/ccd=yA2at3/record?r1=1&h1=0

• National Youth Commission, Executive Yuan (2011). Youth policy white paper. Taipei, Taiwan: National Youth Commission, Executive Yuan.

• Peng, Y. C. (2013). The positive effect of participation in service-learning on delinquents (Master thesis). Retrieved from http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/ccd=KbfUt5/record?r1=1&h1=0

• Su, L. H. (2013). A study of the relationships of senior and vocational high-school students' self-concept, peer interactions, and self-efficacy for learning. Tzu-Chi University Journal of The Educational Research, 9, 197-221.

• Wang, C. Y. (2014). Research on the experience of the adolescent volunteers’ participation in service learning: A case study of rotary interact club at Tainan National Pei-men senior high School (Master thesis). Retrieved from http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/ccd=OQY2t6/record?r1=1&h1=0

• Wang, K. W. (2013). A study on the influence of long-term adventure educational camp upon adolescents’ benefits and self-concept (Master thesis). Retrieved from http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/ccd=eoC_t9/record?r1=1&h1=0

Downloads

Published

2017-06-30

How to Cite

Li, W. C., & Chien, M.-Y. (2017). That Magical Power: High School Students’ Camping Service Experiences and Self-Concept Development. Asian Journal of Education and E-Learning, 5(3). Retrieved from https://ajouronline.com/index.php/AJEEL/article/view/4803

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2017): June 2017

Section

Articles

License

  • Papers must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal published by any other publisher.
  • It is also the authors responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular source are submitted with the necessary approval.
  • The authors warrant that the paper is original and that he/she is the author of the paper, except for material that is clearly identified as to its original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners where required.
  • The authors ensure that all the references carefully and they are accurate in the text as well as in the list of references (and vice versa).
  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
  • The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.