The present study is preliminary attempts to find out the reality of 'education fever' of Koreans, especially that of parents of high school students in Pusan. On the base of the assumptions of theories on school expansion, the study seeks answer to t...
The present study is preliminary attempts to find out the reality of 'education fever' of Koreans, especially that of parents of high school students in Pusan. On the base of the assumptions of theories on school expansion, the study seeks answer to the following problems.
Firstly, are there any differences in the preception of the social reality concerned with school career between the groups divided by personal background variables.
Thirdly, are there any differences of supportive behavior of parents between the groups by personal background variables.
Finally, are there any differences in the aspiration level and supportive behavior of parents between groups divided by perception of social reality.
To answer questions under the study, four kind of variables, I. e., personal background variable of parents perception variable on the social reality concerned with school career, aspiration variable for educational level, and supportive behavior of parents for their children's education, were securecd from responses to a set of questionnaire. Personal background variable is made up of age, school career, region of terminate school, SES of parents. Aspiration variable, perception variable, supportive behavior were identified from an questionnaire composed of 37 items in accordance with the theoretical scheme.
The method of analysis in this study was the "F" test for the measure of the differences of perception on the social reality and supportive behavior of parents between the groups by background variables.
The questions tested and the results obtained may be summarized as the follows:
The result of question 1 is that there are some differences in the perception of the social reality concerned with school career between the groups divided by personal background variables at a significance level of .05.
The result of question 2 is that there are some differences of the aspiration levels of parents between the groups by personal background variables at a significance level of .05. But there is no significant difference in the aspiration level of parents for their son's education between groups.
The result of question 3 is that there are some differences of supportive behavior of parents between the groups by personal background variables at a significance level of .05.
The result of question 4 is that there are some differences in aspiratin level and supportive behavior or parents between groups divided by perception of social reality at a significance level of .05.
In summary, the results of study support that there is a significant relationship between the parents' perception of the social reality concerned with school career and the aspiration level, the supportive behavior of parents for their children's education. On the base of these empirical findings, this study can provide some implications for the next researches on the Korean's 'education fever'.