This study was surveyed to predict the relationship between the quality of early childhood education programs and children playfulness.
The prepared research questions are as follows to achieve this purpose.
1. How are the quality of the child educ...
This study was surveyed to predict the relationship between the quality of early childhood education programs and children playfulness.
The prepared research questions are as follows to achieve this purpose.
1. How are the quality of the child education program, child playfulness,
playing behavior and teaching circumstance related each other?
2. How are the quality of the child education program related to the child playfulness?
3. How are the quality of the child education program related to the child playing behavior?
4. Which variation can foresee the child playing in the quality evaluation of child education program?
This research has been performed at the randomly chosen child education institutes in Gyunggi-do including Seoul. This research has been helped out by those people who has been working as teacher and children (201 teachers and 402 infants were attended.)
at those institutes.
Three measuring tools has been used for this research to measure the standard of children education program evaluation, children playfulness, and playing behavior. The adequacy of every reliability is proved by related professors and teachers. We used Cronbachα as an unit of tools reliability.
Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Correlation, and Multiple Regression were used to analyze the gathered data.
The results of this study were as follows.
First of all, as a result of the relationship test between the quality of early childhood education programs, children playfulness, play behavior and teachers variables, it strongly indicated that there were significant positive relationship with such sub-elements of environment, curriculum, teacher-infant interaction, and individualization. In addition, there were significant relationship between children playfulness and play behavior. Also, it was found significant variable by teachers career and the ratio of numbers between teacher and children.
Secondly, as a result of analyzing the correlations between the quality of early childhood education programs and children playfulness, there were significant variable between curriculum as sub-element of the quality of early childhood education programs and childrens cognitional spontaneity, social spontaneity, expression of pleasure and humor.
Thirdly, as a result of analyzing the correlations between the quality of early childhood education programs and childrens play behavior, there were significant variable between
environment, curriculum, teacher-infant interaction, and individual and childrens play behavior.
Finally, as a result of analyzing the most predictable element of childrens play according to the quality of early childhood education programs, there were significant variable between curriculum as sub-element of the quality of early childhood education programs.