No JavaScript support!

To take full advantage of this digital library, please verify if your browser supports JavaScript.

polski

English

dLibra Digital Library

readers on-line: 42

Publication

Metadata languages

Export metadata

Favourite positions

Add to Favourites

Add to Favourites

Please login or register to use additional features!

Save this address

Add to bookmarks

Publication description

Counselors of summer camps for children and adolescents – between expectations and reality

Planned publication

Alternative title:

Counselors of summer camps for children and adolescents – between expectations and reality

Omelan, Aneta Anna ; Laskowska, Aleksandra ; Hakuć-Błażowska, Anna

summer camps ; children and adolescent tourism ; summer camp educator ; competence ; counselors

Peer reviewed ; Sport and Tourism. Central European Journal ; Vol. 8 ; Issue 2 ; pp. 121-135

Counselors play a key role in fostering positive behaviors and organizing leisure activities, and they should have the required experience and knowledge for working with minors. Therefore, this study was undertaken to identify counselors’ motives for working at summer camps, and to elicit counselors’ opinions about their profession and work environment. The study involved a survey of 175 summer camp counselors. The vast majority of the participants (86%) were women; 34% were professionally active teachers, and 23% were Polish Scouts instructors. The results of the survey were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics, and Pearson’s chi-squared test of independence. 88% of the respondents took summer camp jobs because they enjoyed working with children. Remuneration was a critical factor in the choice of specific job offers (42%), but 70% were not satisfied with the offered wages; 91% of the respondents had completed training courses for camp counselors, but 66% were of the opinion that training does not adequately prepare counselors for the job. Training courses do not thoroughly prepare counselors for working with underage campers. Therefore, obligatory training or internship opportunities for entry-level camp counselors should be considered. Counseling work is a demanding profession, but the offered wages are not proportional to camp counselor’s duties and responsibilities.

Place of publishing:

Czestochowa

Jan Dlugosz University Publishing House

2025

article

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

ISSN 2545-3211 ; e-ISSN 2657-4322

10.16926/sit.2025.02.07 ; click here to follow the link

eng

click here to follow the link

Jan Dlugosz University Publishing House

Main Library of the Jan Dlugosz University in Czestochowa