It is important to improve the qualitative level of nurture which is currently responsible for the development of infant and baby. The Ministry of Women and Family introduced evaluation and authentication system to ensure the quality of nurture and im...
It is important to improve the qualitative level of nurture which is currently responsible for the development of infant and baby. The Ministry of Women and Family introduced evaluation and authentication system to ensure the quality of nurture and improve the level of physical facilities. In connection with nurture program to heighten the qualitative level, methods such as introduction of standard nurture process, etc are being presented. The remaining task to improve qualitative level of nurture is to improve qualitative level of nurture teachers who are responsible for nurture of infant and baby. As the basic step for improvement of qualitative level of nurture teachers, it is time to investigate how they recognize their occupation. Thus, the objective of this research is to identify how nurture teachers recognize their job. For this research, questionnaires were distributed to 312 nurture teachers in nurture facilities located in Seoul and Kyunggi. Among them, 285 copies were collected and 267 copies were adopted for this research after excluding 18 copies (questionnaires from unqualified nurture teacher and questionnaires answered insincerely). To better understand the site, survey by interview was performed to4 nurture teachers.
The issues of this research are as follows.
Issues of research 1: What is the motive and worth that encourage nurture teachers to select that job?
Issues of research 2: What is the quality of nurture teachers which they think is necessary for the job?
Issues of research 3: What is the difficulty that nurture teachers suffer in their job?
Issues of research 4: What is their ultimate goal as nurture teachers and what is the prospect of nurture teacher job?
The result of this research in connection to issues of research is as follows. They decide to be nurture teachers, because they love infant and baby. In spite of the difficult environment and situation of nurture teachers, they can continue working as such because of their love toward infant and baby and the developmental change of infant and baby. Further, nurture teachers find themselves worth living through the shape of infant and baby. The quality which is considered to be most indispensable to nurture teachers is love toward infant and baby. They recognize that professional knowledge and smooth human relation are required in the nurture activity for infant and baby. In the interview, nurture teachers said that they want to try to acquire expertise with love toward infant and baby, but it is difficult for them to make time and economic investment for improvement of expertise due to difficulty in working as shown in the research. Owing to the sundry jobs besides nurture for infant and baby, nurture teachers do not have much time to prepare for nurture activity of the next day. It is still difficult for them to try learning for self-development so as to improve the quality of nurture. Complaining late leaving from office and low wage, nurture teachers said that they would dissuade their children from being nurture teachers owing to this difficulty in job environment, which is a symptom of dismal prospect of nurture teacher job. Though nurture teachers are proud in that their job is worthwhile and highly contributes to the society, they are negative about the prospect of nurture teacher job because of the difficulty they suffer in working and low social recognition. Thus, if is possible to alleviate the difficulty of nurture teachers by improving the work environment and treatment of nurture teachers shown in the questionnaire and interview of this research, the synergy effect will surely be acquired in smooth performance of nurture teacher job by combination with their love toward infant and baby, intention to elevate expertise, pride as nurture teachers. As a result, this will contribute to the cultivation of excellent nurture teachers with high quality.