The modern society produces numerous problems while experiencing the courses of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Among them, the burden to bring up a child rose as a biggest problem. It can be said natural that protection and education of inf...
The modern society produces numerous problems while experiencing the courses of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Among them, the burden to bring up a child rose as a biggest problem. It can be said natural that protection and education of infants is no longer limited to a household affair and socialization and publicity of childcare are emphasized increasingly. To offer the childcare to satisfy children’s development desires, approach to children’s family and their local community should be made; so-called, ‘comprehensive childcare service’, of which the characteristics of active childcare concept is to require childcare service to fully perform its function as a social welfare service.
At present, Korea performs the childcare with limited programs focusing on child protection rather than various childcare program. Simple child protection programs cannot satisfy child’s desire in variety and uniform education program is hart to deal with a problem of an individual child. Accordingly, for the best growth and development of children, a comprehensive service by the local community the children belong to is in need because a local community of a child carries out the functions of production, distribution and consumption, socialization, society control and social integration for their own survival and development and those functions substantially affect children’s personality build and behavioral development.
The study identified the effect and the relations of the local community link program on childcare center, from which the specific objectives of the study were set up as follows.
Firstly, it looked at how physical resources within the local community were being used during education of a childcare center.
Secondly, in light of human resources in the community, it looked at what extent a childcare center utilizes volunteers and how satisfactory it is.
Thirdly, it was analyzed to what extent a childcare center makes use of the local community link program during the care.
The study took the quantitative survey method and chiefs and nurturing teachers of the childcare centers located in Kyunggi-do and Seoul were surveyed with the questionnaires.
The findings can be summarized as follows.
Firstly, childcare centers must improve effectiveness of childcare activity by making a full use of local community’s resources. During the childcare, education of children with human and physical resources of local community would be able to maximize the effect of the activities.
Secondly, childcare centers can make a contribution to development and welfare of local community by opening childcare program and facilities to local residents as well as the children of the childcare centers. Nurturing teachers or chiefs of the centers should not limit any programs to their own childcare facility but let all facilities of the local community shared through information sharing. The central government or the local authority must make a full financial, human support for childcare facility to actively provide programs to the local community. Thirdly, to activate childcare center’s link to local community, it is urgent to develop and distribute various programs of the local community link program. In particular, the program should not be limited to children but extended to family and parents by customizing it for individual characteristics. Development in all aspects such as linguistic, perceptive, social, emotional and bodily development is rapidly made during the infancy, which is the critical time to form a life base. As a subject party who perceives the importance, the role of childcare facility is most important to upgrade the quality of local community program as well as to satisfy childcare desires.