• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.67-79
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• 1998

Health education is essential service of health promotion program, and health promotion is external extension of health education. However, the implementation of health education in community is not well because of lack of budget and health education specialist, deficient cognition for health promotion. Hence, introduction for the credential on health educator is to assist community and school health through the training of the specialist This study was carried out to establish the credential health educator for activation of health promotion program in Korea. In detail, this study aimed at 1) to confirm the law for health education, 2) to understand the credential on health education specialist in U. S. and the certification on other parts in Korea, 3) to establish the proper credential on health educator in Korea. Finding the results were as follows: The law on health education was Regulation on Health Promotion which has defined the health educator and responsibility of health education. In case of U. S., the credential on health education specialist has implemented since 1992, and the sort of credential on health education specialist were community health educator, public health educator, school health educator, and health promotion specialist. Therefore, major opinion to introduce the proper credential on health education in Korea were suggested: the first, establishment of educational processing on the training of specialized health educator, the second, introduction of examination on the evaluation for ability as health educator. the last. planning for application of health educator in community.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.257-273
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• 2005

Objectives: The study was to analyse health educator system of Japan and to suggest some implications to certification system of health education specialist in Korea. Methods: A content analysis carried out for the study which is an establishment the central operating organization, and curriculum of health educator system of Japan. Related documents of Japanese Association of Health Education were reviewed and personnel of the central operating body was interviewed in 2005. Result: Major findings were as follows: 1. Health educators in Japan were trained and certified through a non governmental organization, named Health Educator Training Organization in cooperation with Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion. 2. Certification system was developed by Japanese Society of Health Education and Promotion, and health educators were certified through fulfillment of professional training and examination administered by Health Educator Training Organization. 3. The professional training sessions were held twice a year and the credential should be renewed every five years. 4. The eligibility of participation in the professional training sessions and renewal requirement were defined in the regulations of Health Educator Training Organization. 5. There were two kinds of health educators in Japan. The first one was a practical health educator, and the other was a professional health educator. The training for a professional health educator was more intensive than the practical one and consigned to a graduate school designated by Health Educator Training Organization. Conclusion: Review of operating system, clarity of operating process, and the development of renewal system of health education specialist would be necessary for the improvement of certification system in Korea.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.187-195
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• 2005

The objectives of this study were to analyze present status and to suggest for the future upbringing programs for informal environment educator of Environmental NGOs in Korea. Based on the findings from reviewing environmental educators’ certification systems in Environmental NGOs, the following suggestions should be considered for improving the certification systems. 1) Government and environmental NGOs should adopt a certification system by implementing qualifying examination for employing specification of informal environmental educator. 2) Applicants to obtain a certification of informal environmental educator in environmental NGOs should be qualified through standard processes including taking required curriculum and programs. They must be evaluated informal environmental educator’ ability accurately through their portfolio, teaching ability, professional responsibilities and so on. 3) Standardized curriculum and programs should be adopted by government for the initial preparation of environmental educators reflecting the guidelines from the KOSEE (The Korean Society for Environmental Education) and NAAEE (North American Association for Environmental Education) in the future.

• The Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.57-63
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• 2014

Purpose: This study was to survey the recognition for the roles of health educator and knowledge about the examination system in health college students at a university located in Chungnam. Methods: The participants were 140 health college students. The survey was conducted using a questionnaire consists of 10 items. The knowledge about the examination system was checked for 9 items with a five-point scale. Recognition for the roles of health educator was divided into four categories from know very well to do not know at all. The data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 program. Results: In this study, the mean score of knowledge about the examination system was 1.95 points out of 5, and the mean score of recognition for the roles of health educator was 3.01 points out of 4. According to the general characteristics, there were statistically significant differences in their knowledge about the examination system for health educator regarding their gender (p=.034) and grade (p<.001). Recognition for the roles of health educator showed a statistically significant difference only in their grade (p<.001). Conclusion: These results provide the basic data to prepare the necessary measures for the revitalization and promotion of the health educators.

• Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.385-400
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• 2006

The study aims to explore the rural extension specialist's role and capacity of knowledge management (KM) extension service in the knowledge based society. According to major findings through previous study and literature review, the followings were concluded. Rural extension educator's role and ability of knowledge management composed four processes by the stage of knowledge process: knowledge creation-knowledge storage-knowledge utilization-knowledge share. As a adoption of the knowledge management in rural extension service, at the knowledge creation the rural extension educator's role of KM are four roles which needed fourteen abilities to carry out them successfully. For at the knowledge storage the rural extension educator's role of KM are eight roles which needed eight abilities to carry out them successfully. For at the knowledge utilization the rural extension educator's role of KM are eight roles which needed ten abilities to carry out them successfully. Lastly for at the knowledge sharing the rural extension educator's role of KM are nine roles which needed 8 abilities to carry out them successfully.

• Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.233-240
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• 2010

Objective: The purpose of this study was to research of investigation of dental technology students about health educator systems. Methods: A survey was performed on 102 subjects in March in 2010. There search tool was a structured questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed by frequency, descriptive, chi-square test and Pearson's correlation coefficient by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 12.0. Results: Respondent most did not know about health educator systems. But, positive opinion for it. And necessity about education appeared high in subjects. There are a lot of interests in health educator system(p=0.000). Conclusion: We thought that interest of dental technology student's rise more.

• Hwankyungkyoyuk
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.79-93
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• 2004

The aim of this study is to provide a guide for the development of non-formal environmental educator certification system by analyzing certification systems in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. The following observations from reviewing environmental educator certification systems in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan have implications for development of our own system in Korea. First, environmental educator certification systems are generally managed by cooperation of local environmental education organization association and local universities. Second, in many programs, applicants are qualified through processes including taking required curriculum and submitting portfolio or documents for reviewing of qualification. Third, in the United States, the majority of programs adopted curriculum based on ‘Guidelines for the Initial Preparation of Environmental Educator’ by NAAEE, which means the majority of programs have relatively standardized curriculum. Fourth, curriculums consist of basic skills of teaching, communication, leadership as well as contents of environmental education so that the applicants can practice more efficient environmental education when they are certified. Fifth, the certification programs utilize selected organizations' environmental education programs for training of applicants rather than establish their own programs. It contributes to the improvement of programs of organizations that applicants participated.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.11-22
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• 2011

Objectives: This study aims to provide baseline information for health educator training, standards for university curriculum on health education and health educator training, and ultimately to help settling the national qualification system for health education specialists. Results and Conclusion: Based on literature review and professional taskforce meetings, we discuss: 1) Principles for course standards; and 2) Objectives and content standards for 9 required courses for health education specialists. The curriculum standards could be used for the course evaluation run by Korea Health Educator Qualification Management Office, and as a guiding principle for the development of courses and curricula for health education and health educator training.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.25-34
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• 2012

This study examined the relationship among early childhood educator's MBTI personal tendencies, creativity, and teaching efficacy. 120 kindergarten teachers and 155 day care teachers participated in this study. Several survey questionnaires were used for this study, such as, teaching efficacy scale, MBTI personality tendencies, and a creativity test. The collected data was analyzed with the SPSS program(version 18.0). The findings of this study were as follows: First, there were some differences between an early childhood educator's MBTI personal tendencies and creativity. Secondly, there was a positive correlation among early childhood educator's MBTI personal tendencies, creativity, and teaching efficacy.

• Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.185-195
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• 1997

This study is aimed to devise a development and utilization of health educator in Korea. Health education activities should be a matter of the highest priority in the health promotion program. However the health education program able to establish effectively through utilizing health educator. The histories of health education program both private and public sector in Korea was compiled in this paper. The regulations of health educators in developed countries such as U.S.A, Japan and other European countries was contemplated in terms of their roles, qualities and working sites. This study proposed positively to develop new national license of health educator in consideration of the working places and roles in Korea. The former is placed to five fields such as health center, industry, health insurance corporation, school, hospital and other health related institions, and the latter is working with high quality of planning, excuting and evaluating health education program.