Need Assessments for Designing APEC Edutainment Exchange Program (AEEP) in Sakha

Need Assessments for Designing APEC Edutainment Exchange Program (AEEP) in Sakha

The purpose of this study is to assess the need for APEC Edutainment Exchange Program(AEEP) and current status of educational environment of Sakha in Russia in order to design AEEP with Korea. To this end, based on literature review, this study conducted a field research in Sakha visiting universities, schools, camp sites and various sits for experiential learning for students and did a survey and interviews targeting the local teaches and education experts. The results are as follows. First, having high demand for international educational cooperation activities for students, Sakha, located in the far east of Russia, has attractive and divergent educational resources in the aspect of culture, history, and natural environments. Second, it needs to consider participation costs, matters of interpretation due to language barriers between Korea and Russia, and involvement and support from local Korean residents and related institutions. Third, there should be enough attention and orientation to Korean students so that they can understand and respect the cultural difference of speaking attitude and food in Sakha. These results could provide preliminary data to develop Sakha-Korea AEEP utilizing divergent cultural resources and rich natural environments of Sakha with systemic support for participants.