To Find the Meaning of Life in Adventure Education Instructor Work

• Main Authors: Chih-Lin Wong, 黃芷玲
• Other Authors: Chih-Mou Hsieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90515348572275098401

碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 休閒產業經營學系碩士班 === 98 === The purposes of this study were to understand the sources of power which keep the instructors stay in their work, and the meaning of being an instructor. Research data was collected by depth interview from five senior professional instructors, and understand from the hermeneutic view. According to the result of this study, the identification of adventure education, developing their own styles and the work related to their life that help them find the way to proceed the instructor work. There are four sources of power can keep them stay in the work: the power from themselves, the power from the work, the power from the others and the power from the meaning of life. To the five senior professional instructors, they can experience the meaning from “personal development”, “creativity”, “relating to nature” and “religious and spiritual” in their work. After all, they interpret the instructor work as a mission and calling of their whole life.