As of now, cognition on necessity and importance of transition education is being high in special education field in Korea nowadays. Especially in execution of transition education, teachers' cognition is important and to understand their cognition st...
As of now, cognition on necessity and importance of transition education is being high in special education field in Korea nowadays. Especially in execution of transition education, teachers' cognition is important and to understand their cognition standard is necessary process in that basic data for more effective education can be acquired from it.
In that sense, it's very significant for this study to investigate transition education cognition realities on the subject of vocational education teachers who directly teach transition education to mentally retarded students in school.
The conclusions from the results of this study are suggested as follows:
First, transition education cognition standard is comparatively high. There is no difference in standard by teachers' surrounding factors and cognition standard factors about necessity of transition education for students and transition education realities of our nation. It is understood that transition education is helpful to the improvement of life quality of mentally retarded students and vacational teachers are the highest in connection or not with co-teachers for effective transition education.
Second, it is pointed out by all teachers that the problems of transition education are lack of cognition and specialty of teachers, lack of cognition and cooperation of related company of community, lack of facilities, equipment and programs, lack of administrative and financial support of nation and lack of cooperation of parents and family. To solve those problems, the change of cognition of schools, students, parents, teachers and school governor and training for improvement of teachers' specialty for all teachers to execute transition education is needed and cooperation of community and administrative and financial support of nation should be enlarged and functional curriculum management connecting conversion education is needed.
The suggestions through the conclusions of this study are as follows:
First, this study was on the purpose of investigating transition education cognition standard of vocational education teachers in special school. Next step, quality study through real subject should be done.
Second, along with the result of this study, connecting plan with school and rehabilitation service organization is needed because transition education service needs cooperation from not only school but also related organization of community.