This thesis focuses on the early childhood teachers different views on the recognition of the family structure, concepts of family, and pedagogical views with relation to values of family formations. And this study deals with the relationship betwee...
This thesis focuses on the early childhood teachers different views on the recognition of the family structure, concepts of family, and pedagogical views with relation to values of family formations. And this study deals with the relationship between the recognition of family concept and the view of family education.
For this study, total 411 early childhood teachers working in 60 day care centres in Seoul, Korea, took part in answering the questionnaire. The questionnaire contains totally 86 questions about teachers backgrounds (10 questions), views on the concept of family (38 questions), and family education (38 questions). In this project, the Cronbachs coefficients, frequencies and percentages, one-way analysis of variance, and correlation analysis are used for the analysis of the data.
In summary, the result of the analysis is as follows: firstly, early childhood teachers views on the family formation with relation to various relationships among family members show intermediate acceptance. Moreover, there are significant differences according to the variables of teacher. In other words, teachers who are older in age, more experienced in career, and have higher academic background, higher income tend to show higher acceptance rate for various family relations. Their pedagogical views on the relation to the family formation are higher than average.
Secondly, early childhood teacher views on the idea of family show more inclination to nuclear family which is closely related to kinship. In this case, the variables of teacher demonstrate significant differences. This means that teachers working in the day-care centre are more inclined to the kinship-centred nuclear family than teachers working in nursery. Furthermore, teachers who are older in age, are more experienced in career, and have lower income, tend to exclude the diversity of the family formation, and adhere to the standardised form of the family concept, which is based on unformed family values. In the case of pedagogical views on family value, like the result of the recognition of family formation, teachers who are older in age, more experienced in career-particularly are working at the day-care centre, and have higher academic background and lower income, have a tendency of emphasizing strong family value,
Thirdly, early childhood teachers family values show high acceptance for diversified family formations, and there are significant differences according to the variables of teachers. Teachers who are older in age, more experienced in career, and have higher academic background and more income, tend to show high acceptance for various family formations. With regard to the pedagogical view on values of the family formation, the result demonstrates that there is high percentage of agreement with education of various family formations. In this case, teachers who are older in age, more experienced in career, and have higher academic background and more income, show a strong tendency of accepting education in the diversified family formations.
Lastly, there is a statistic correlation between teachers recognition of family and their views on family education. This means that the views on family education are influenced by teachers recognition of the idea of family.
As a conclusion, this study shows that the recognition of family and pedagogical views are influenced differently by ages, careers, academic backgrounds and total incomes. Teachers recognition and attitude towards the concept of
"family" give influence to their views on education.