This study is a qualitative research on the issue of communication based on the case of communication between a national child care facility, day care center, director of the kindergarten, early childhood teacher and the parents.
One study background ...
This study is a qualitative research on the issue of communication based on the case of communication between a national child care facility, day care center, director of the kindergarten, early childhood teacher and the parents.
One study background is a change of social child care environment which is deepening low-birth phenomenon and continued increase in female employment rates, and also a change of home care environment of mounting up dual-income household to foster the minority children in day care facilities.
On the other hands, media environmental changes which are the advent of new communication tools called smart phones and the expansion of the base through the rapid proliferation unified our communication channel in the real world, constantly routinized the point, and brought us out a new change in communication culture was another research background.
One such social phenomena and the flow of cultural change, put it on a common denominator of change of communication to examine the relationship between them is that the starting point of this research.
The purpose of this study is to look at the media by type in order to solve problem which is uncomfortable experience on the communication process made between a national child care facilities Nurseries, director of the kindergarten, and the parents, and identify the limiting factor to suggest ways to improve on this.
In relation, first looked at the child care status and system with literature review in this study, and examined the theoretical background of media environmental change.
Research methods include in-depth interviews targeting 30 people of day care center, a director of kindergarten, early childhood teachers and the parents located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province.
Since the result of in-depth interviews of participants in the child care facility between director, teachers and parents’ communication analyzed has been found that there is a core of three types, and they are interact type communication, information delivery type communication, and safety check type communication.
Among these, the safety check type of communication is a new type appeared in the process of analyzing in-depth interviews conducted in this study.
The type of the three key communications is found that this configuration is for each type of three subcategories.
First, in case of the interact type communication, announcements, medication requests, return home request were related subcategories.
Second, the information delivery type communication includes announcements, diet information, and a photo album category was composed.
Third, the safety check type communication was identified whether arrival, departure from nurseries, shuttle location, emergency response such a missing child has occurred.
The three core types and sub-category of this type of communication was facing a number of problems in the communication process between a director, teachers and parents were experiencing consequent discomfort and communication break. There was also utilized some media to resolve this issue.
Utilizing the medium is divided largely into offline and online, and toddler parents are using the media to use the same parameters that were used in child care, rather than utilizing a variety of media.
Yet, utilizing medium was related to one another in the matter of subject of a communication, select media by the subject, and how often utilized in accordance with the intended use.
Director and teachers of the child care facilities utilized mainly offline media which is species, prints and landline phone, and took advantage of the additional auxiliary means, such as online media verification (their web site) and group texting(short message service) program.
In the case of the other hand, toddler parents mainly attempted to bow their smart phones.
Therefore, media utilization for their communication includes three limiting factors which are not interactive, accessibility falling, and not supportive in real-time.
Thus, the current communication between child care facilities, teachers and parents regarding infant was experiencing discomfort on the process and experience the inability to communicate seamlessly.
In addition, the need to improve on this, everyone was sympathetic. In this study, was able to reach the following conclusions.
First, the communication in child care facilities will need to be improved so that you can experience the interaction between modality priority director, teachers and parents about the three key types and each type of sub-categories.
Secondly, for the mutual communication parties, it should be the improvement of the experience of director of child care center, teachers and parents, and the business process may have to improve process efficiency and ease of teachers required for this plan should be.
Third, the use of communication media, smart phone is considered to be able to apply them for current communication parties.
Finally, with access to communication services viewpoint to provide perspective on infant home rather than looking at communication of director of child care, teachers, and parents, it needs to be checked whether the improvement of the physical communication experience by interacting, real time, and planning easy real service to apply the field on the basis of the current media environment.