A Study on the Serious Leisure Experience of Culture Volunteers
| Autor: | Hsueh-Hsia WangChen, 王陳雪霞 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 97 The research was based on culture volunteers from four culture and education institutes including National Museum of Natural Science, National Taichung Library, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taichung City. The purpose of the research was to explore how the serious leisure culture volunteers’ learning experiences affect and change their own existences. The research employed the in-depth interview approach. Two male and four female serious culture volunteers recommended by the above four institutes and with extended and willing participation were interviewed by the researcher. The volunteers respectively were an office worker, a proprietor, a housewife, a retired teacher, a career military, etc. These six culture volunteers were interviewed and their life stories were accounted in order to understand their initial motivations, persistence factors and learning experiences of volunteer participation, and also the growth and change that brought about to their life. According to the research findings, conclusions were made respectively as follows: 1.Serious culture volunteers’ motivations include personal psychological demand, role transformation, outside influences and social service, and were closely linked to individual living circumstances. 2.Long-term volunteers held serious leisure characteristics so that they were very willing to take continually participation with joy. 3.Rich learning harvest was obtained in the study course and which was due to personal initiative manner. Joyful learning experience would make volunteers more willing to participate in service. 4.Serious culture volunteers’ service experiences facilitated individual life viewpoint transformation, and brought influence and change to their life and career development. 5.Long-term volunteers held serious leisure characteristics and had the cultural inheritance responsibility. Based on the conclusions above, the research proposed some suggestions to serious leisure culture volunteers, voluntary service utilization units, government coherent units, and also to following researches in the future. Key words: serious leisure, culture volunteers, voluntary service, learning experience |
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