抄録
Vocational school students (VS student) who have little experience in camping or open-air nature school are working as auxiliary instructors in nature schools managed by Amagasaki municipal primary schools. Nature schools not only have various educational effects on the attending primary school pupils but also will have educational effects on the auxiliary instructors who have little experience in camping or nature school. To investigate the educational effects of participating in nature schools as instructors, we conducted a survey using questionnaires and daily journals written by the VS students before and after the experience of nature school, It was found that before the experience of nature school, most VS students had anxiety for the guidance to children, but after the experience of nature school, they learned enjoyments in camping and the importance of leadership through the activities in the nature school.A hierarchical factor analysis applied to the covariance matrix for 8 image data about assistance of camping revealed that there existed first-, second- and third-order factors.The changes in their image before and after the experience of nature school were analyzed on the basis of the pass coefficients among these factors.From the results of these analyses, it was suggested that before the experience of nature school, the VS students thought that it was important to deepen a natural experience, but after the experience of nature school, they came to think that it was important to draw ability of a child through improvement of ability of the staff.
