Leadership training program of adapted physical activities for the people with disability in Korea

Abstract

The landmarks of history for special education were divided into three periods. The first stage was people with blind(1445-1898) by government centered period, The secondwas people with blind and deaf by facilities centered period (1898-1945),and period for the all the disabilities byschool centered period(1945-present) in Korea. Therewere many special education institutes, special schoolsand regular schools including students with disabilities atspecial class and regular class in Korea. The purpose of this study was to investigate leadership training program of adapted physical activities for the people with disability in Korea. For the purpose, the methods were engaged the analysis of literatures, documents, record and quantitative analysis. The results of this study were as follows; there were three main systems of leadership training program of adapted physical activity for people with disabilities. 1. Teacher training education with teacher certificate for adapted physical activity at undergradu- ate level in university. 2. The many universities offer the adapted physical activity courses at undergraduate level and graduate course without teacher certificate. The graduate course offer major in adapted physical activity for master and doctorate degree. 3. There were leadership training program for adapted physical activity at Korea Paralympic Committee (KPC), Special Olympic Korea (SOK), Korea Association of Leaders for Adapted Physical Activity(KALAPA), and the other organizations for APA in Korea.