Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development (농촌지도와개발)
- Volume 3 Issue 2
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- Pages.247-264
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- 1996
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- 1976-3107(pISSN)
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- 2384-3705(eISSN)
A Hermeneutical Analysis of the Program Development for Extension Education in Korea
농촌지도사업 교육프로그램 개발에 대한 해석학적 분석
- Kim, Jin-Hwa (College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
- Joeng, Ji-Woong (College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
- Published : 1996.12.31
Abstract
The objective of this study was to analyze the reality of the program development process in detail accomplished by the organizations of extension education in through the hermeneutical approach. To achieve this purpose, this study tried to find answers to the following three questions : (1) how the organization of extension education develop their programs for farmers? (2) what is the programmers' awareness to the process of program development? and what is the reason for their thought and action to do so. (3) can be discussed integrally the findings for drawing some implications? The qualitative data were mainly gathered through participation observation and unstructured interview. And the qualitative data were analyzed by (1) noting pattern and themes, (2) seeing plausibility, (3) clustering, (4) making metaphors, (5) factoring, and (6) building a logical chain of evidence which hermeneutical techniques far drawing the meaning from the gathered data. The findings of this study were as follows: The programmers of this organization carried out the developing program in the technical training division at the national level and the section of fostering farm manager at the county level for the purpose of delivering the agricultural new technology and the agricultural policy. The term used formly in this organization was `curriculum development for former', and the reality of program was `instruction profile` which signified the set of the educational manin contents. At county level, Educational planning was stressed on the implement of educational administration.
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