With the rapid economic development and change of social structure in Korean society during late decades, there have been such accumulating evidences of moral decline in Korean society as enlarging social corruption, public injustice, individualism, p...
With the rapid economic development and change of social structure in Korean society during late decades, there have been such accumulating evidences of moral decline in Korean society as enlarging social corruption, public injustice, individualism, poignant materialism, and violent crimes. I think the current Korean civil society requires the mature citizens who have democratic attitude, reasonable thought, responsible decision in the face of moral problems.
The purpose of my dissertation is to analyze the civil ethical consciousness of teenagers in and around Seoul area through a sample survey, and cultivate an educational orientation of nurturing their civil ethic consciousness.
I have analyzed and revised the dependent variables of my survey based on the related theories and theoretical background of civil ethic consciousness. It has led me to think the importance of the following four moral values : the dignity of humankind, the respect for law, social participation, and autonomy. I have found that demographic character, family environment, and school life function as independent variables.
The data for this study were collected from 585 students of the third grade of middle school and the juniors of high school from seven different school located in Seoul and Kyung-gi area. The data of my survey were Factor Analysis, Frequency Analysis, ANOVA.
The results of this survey are as following :
First, the view of demographic characteristic variables according to gender, shows that the female students had much higher degree of the total civil ethic consciousness than the male students. The score of the respect for law in middle school students were higher than those of high school students. And the score of social participation and autonomy in high school students were higher than those of middle school students. There was no regional difference in the result analysis of civil ethic consciousness.
Secondly, the view of family life according to parents' educational levels and civil ethic consciousness shows meaningful effects in total civil ethic consciousness, social participation and autonomy. The higher parents' educational levels are, the higher students' civil ethic consciousness become. Also, the relationship between parents' jobs and civil ethic consciousness shows meaningful effects in participation consciousness in case of patient who is father and total civil ethic consciousness and autonomy in case of mother. And, the civil ethic consciousness according to the life level and family members showed meaningful effects in total civil ethic consciousness, the respect for law, autonomy. The higher is peoples' life level, the higher is their civil ethic consciousness. The civil ethic consciousness according to having siblings and no siblings showed meaningful effects in law-abiding spirit and participation consciousness. Those who have sibling have high the respect for law but, those who have no sibling have high participation consciousness. Next, the relationship of students' order and civil ethic consciousness show meaningful effects total civil ethic consciousness and the respect for law when the order is the middle or the first was higher than the one or the youngest. And also, the civil ethic consciousness according to more conversation having with parents shows meaningful effect in total civil ethic consciousness, participation consciousness and autonomy. The more they have conversation, the higher their civil ethic consciousness become.
Thirdly, to examine the civil ethic consciousness according to school life, first of all, from the view of civil ethic consciousness there are differences of total civil ethic consciousness, participation consciousness, and autonomy. The higher marks they have, the higher they have civil ethic consciousness. But, the marks of moral and ethical subject show meaningful effects in social participation and autonomy. The relation with the number of friends to civil ethic consciousness shows meaningful effects in only social participation. But, the relation of the respect for class teachers to civil ethic consciousness shows meaningful effects in total civil ethic consciousness and autonomy. The more they respect him, the more they have civil ethic consciousness. And the relation with problem solution according to conversation to civil ethic consciousness shows meaningful effects. The more they have conversation to solve their problems, the higher they have civil ethic consciousness.
Finally in this study, variables which affect the total civil ethic consciousness were proved with gender, parents' educational level, mothers' job, life level, students' order, conversational time with parents, respect for class teachers and marks.
Through the above result of my analysis, here I come to cultivate an educational direction for the formation of civil ethic consciousness.
I have found how the household and school life of teenagers are effectively related to either nurturing or declining their civil ethic consciousness. The school education of civil ethic consciousness cannot succeed without the support of domestic education. Parents are ethical icons of their children, and they must be. Also, schools must think about the methodical change and atmosphere for the effective education. For it, parents have to pursue the life pattern of democratic family community and teachers must try to democratize and justify our school education. And, we have to practice the study of various teaching method through mass-media, and we have to give students the opportunity to join all kinds of service action and experience.
Through these efforts, our next generation can grow to be responsible citizens ased on the civil ethic consciousness and attitudes. building democratic society.