A Study on the Improvement Direction of Specialized Education and Training According to the Personal Characteristics and Job opening Routes of Korea Coast Guard Special Rescue Officers

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-104
Author(s):  
Jin-Ho Kim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Specialized Education ◽  
And Training

scholarly journals Exploring Park Director Roles in Promoting Community Physical Activity

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 731-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Marsh ◽  
Kathryn Pitkin Derose ◽  
Deborah A. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Staff Training ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Administrative Burden ◽  
Community Interaction ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
And Training

Background:Parks provide numerous opportunities for physical activity (PA). Previous studies have evaluated parks’ physical features, but few have assessed how park staff influence PA.Methods:We conducted semistructured interviews with 49 park directors, focusing on perceptions of their role, park programs, marketing and outreach, external collaborations, and PA promotion. Directors also completed a questionnaire providing demographics, education and training, and other personal characteristics.Results:Park directors’ descriptions of their roles varied widely, from primarily administrative to emphasizing community interaction, though most (70% to 80%) reported offering programs and community interaction as primary. Including PA in current programs and adding PA-specific programs were the most commonly reported ways of increasing PA. Also noted were facility and staffing improvements, and conducting citywide marketing. Many directors felt inadequately trained in marketing. Most parks reported community collaborations, but they appeared fairly superficial. An increasing administrative burden and bureaucracy were recurring themes throughout the interviews.Conclusions:Staff training in marketing and operation of PA programs is needed. Partnerships with health departments and organizations can help facilitate the PA promotion potential of parks. As there are competing views of how parks should be managed, standardized benchmarks to evaluate efficiency may help to optimize usage and PA promotion.

scholarly journals How schools contribute to keeping students on track: Narratives from vulnerable students in vocational education and training

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Evi Schmid ◽  
Beate Jørstad ◽  
Gøril Stokke Nordlie
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Immigrant Background ◽  
And Training

This article examines characteristics, practices and conditions within schools that enable vulnerable students to succeed in school. Research suggests that factors related to structure, educational organisation or the climate within schools may play a part in either pushing out or holding on to students whose personal characteristics may put them at risk of dropping out. The study is based on 25 qualitative interviews with students in the second year of vocational education and training. All the students had a low grade point average from lower secondary school, and the majority had an immigrant background from Africa or Asia. The analysis shows that practice-oriented learning from authentic work tasks provided meaningful connections between schoolwork and students’ career choices and opportunities to experience success and mastery. Furthermore, positive expectations and the active support of teachers as well as mutual motivation and support among classmates contributed to students’ sense of belonging at school. The study discusses the importance of schools supporting less school-oriented young people in connecting and identifying with school, both with the social environment and with the educational content and learning methods.

scholarly journals The effects of education and training on self-esteem of nurse leaders

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Andreja Kvas ◽  
Janko Seljak
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Nurse Leaders ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
And Training

Introduction: A successful leader must have high self-esteem. The main aims of this study were to identify changes in the self-esteem of nurse leaders in Slovenia from 2001 to 2011 and to determine homogeneous groups of leaders with similar personal characteristics.Methods: The study used a version of a personal characteristics questionnaire with 16 self-descriptive statements. Two surveys were conducted among nurse leaders in Slovenian public hospitals, one in 2001 and the other in 2011. Relationships between variables were analysed using chi-square tests for categorical variables and the one-way analysis of variance for quantifiable variables. Factor analysis was used to determine groups of leaders with similar personal characteristics.Results: A total of 327 nurse leaders participated in the survey in 2001 and 296 filled in questionnaires in 2011. The analysis showed that the level of self-assessment of personal characteristics among nurse leaders in Slovenian public hospitals was significantly higher in 2011 than in 2001, and that differences among individual leaders decreased in most areas. Based on the assessments of personal characteristics, four groups of nurse leaders were established: task-oriented, knowledge and creativity oriented, relationship oriented and extroverted nurse leaders. In the 2011 data, the groups of personal characteristics were much more clearly defined. These groups were established in accordance with leadership theory and research from other fields.Conclusions: The positive effects of better education and training are visible in nurse leaders in terms of both their higher self-esteem and in the establishment of more homogeneous groups of leaders.

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