2020, Vol.6, No.1

한국청소년활동연구 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.18

pISSN : 2635-9111 / eISSN : 2765-4117
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kyara

This study aims to offer fundamental data on the local youth participation organization by providing a more systematic analysis on the local research, and therefore triggering more active follow-up studies. First of all, this study examined the concept and research scope by considering studies that related to the topic of youth participation organization; it selected a total of 39 subject matters of analysis from 27 locally released theses and academic papers from 1998 to 2018, and 12 research reports that were published from local research centers. As a result, the yearly research trend first appeared in 2003, and from 2004, the academic papers were introduced. In terms of subject of study, 11 out of 39 cases were solely of local youth participation organization, and out of them were mostly of youth steering committee, being six cases. Furthermore during the study, there were 28 cases when combining the participation organizations, and 22 theses aimed at all youth participation organizations. As for the research methodology, quantitative research was the most popular by being 20 cases. The research subject of 19 cases were concerning active youths of youth participation organizations, and 17 research cases were based upon the operation and development plan. Additionally, the theses demonstrated a larger focus of research purpose on the youth and teenagers, whereas, research reports presented a higher proportion of research objective on the operation and development plan. The most common suggestion was the need for improved awareness towards teenagers, and supplementation and reinforcement of the implementation system. Lastly, the next assignment was presented after collecting the discussions of the research findings. This study allows a comprehensive analysis not only through local academic journals, but including theses and research reports, and has significance by suggesting the direction of research based upon this concept.

This study aims to explore the direction of competency-oriented youth activities by examining the social perceptions of youth activities and competency through big data analysis. To this purpose, based on textom's big data, online data was collected using search words such as 'youth+activity', 'youth+competency', and 'youth+activity+competency'. The collected data were selected based on the frequency of the words after the first and second refining processes, and the selected core key-words were converted into matrix data to conduct social network analysis. First, the social perception of youth activities was dominated by volunteer activity. In addition, volunteer work and research were close factors affecting youth activities. Based on this, we could learn the importance of research related to volunteer activity as a youth activity. Second, the frequency analysis of youth competency was high in the order of youth, research, support, programs, competency and education. The ego network visualization suggests that education and programs have a significant impact on youth competency. Except for youth and competency keyword, which were search key-words, program-oriented competency education was recognized as an important keyword. Third, considering all youth, activities and capabilities, social preception was represented by four topics: competency development, program elements, youth research topics and activations. Based on these results, the study suggested implications and suggestions for competency-oriented youth activities.

The purpose of this study is to develop the criterion that can measure the performance of youth field practice, and to examine their validity. For this study, practice outcome of youth field practice was defined as achievement of a goal on practice satisfaction and goal for overall youth field practice, and 59 preliminary questions were prepared according to previous studies. As for prepared preliminary questions, appropriateness and contents validation were reviewed by 14 youth field instructors who currently worked in the youth field and 1 professor in the related area, and 53 questions were finally chosen. Selected preliminary questions were used to implement the preliminary investigation on 30 preliminary youth field instructors who currently worked in youth field academic department and had an experience of practice to confirm the appropriateness of reactions of respondents and questions. Afterwards, after reflecting feedback from preliminary investigation and selecting final questions, survey questions were received from 265 preliminary youth field instructors who currently worked in youth field academic department and had an experience of practice in youth field, and survey responses from 251 instructors were analyzed through the question outlier test. Question analysis and factor analysis resulted in five factors describing 65.369 % of the total variance. A total of 33 questions of the youth field practice outcome criteria, consisting of 12 items corresponding to satisfaction level of institutional support for practice, 7 items corresponding to 'satisfaction with relationship with practice instructors',8 items corresponding to 'self-evaluation', 4 items corresponding to ‘understanding level of institution’, and 2 items corresponding to 'satisfaction of practice instruction', were developed. The internal consistency coefficient of the outcome scale for youth field practice was high as .962 for the total items. The internal consistency coefficient by sub factors were .929 for the practice support satisfaction factor of the institution, .927 for the relationship satisfaction factor with the practice instructors, .899 for the self-evaluation factor, .822 for the institution understanding level factor, and .759 for the satisfaction factor of practice instruction. This study is meaningful that it has defined the practice outcome of youth field practice and developed related criteria when there have not been studies actively conducted on them. In addition, this study is also meaningful that it can be a criterion for self-evaluation of trainees after youth field practice as criteria have been developed based on practice satisfaction and achievement of a goal for practice. However, this study is limited that it has not verified the appropriateness of practice outcome measuring model in youth field practice, and practice outcome might differ depending on subjective judgment of trainees. Therefore, it seems that follow-up studies need to proceed the research for validation and develop objective criteria on the practice outcome in youth field practice.