This study is set the follow questions to study the present conditions of sex-education operation and understanding of the teachers for developing the child sex-education program.
1) what is the difference of the present condition of sex-education ope...
This study is set the follow questions to study the present conditions of sex-education operation and understanding of the teachers for developing the child sex-education program.
1) what is the difference of the present condition of sex-education operation by regions and types of the children education institute?
2) what is the difference of understanding of teachers by regions and types of the children education institute?
3) what is the relation between the understanding of teachers and the present operation condition of child sex-education?
This study is conducted with 207 teachers currently working at children’s education institutes in 5 different regions, Seoul, KyoungGi, KangWon, ChungCheong, KyoungSang, JeolLa. The information collected from the research group was presented by percentage after ran SPSS/PC+ program by frequency, and it was verified the level of significance by regions and types of children’s education institutes each question.
The result of the present study is suggested the context below.
1. The most teachers(97.5%) answered that they conduct the sex-education to children at children’s education institutes. But, in ChungCheong region, there are more institutes that don’t conduct the sex-education to children than in Seoul, KyoungGi, KyoungSang, JeolLa regions.
2. About the time for child sex-education, two answers were the most popular that they have organized sex-education plan by yearly, monthly and weekly and follow those plans, or they conduct it flexible without regular schedule according to related topic with daily life. When it comes to the types of child education institutes, the research shows that the day-care-room teachers conduct the sex-education with organized plans by yearly, monthly and weekly compared to kindergarten teachers.
From 3 years old to 4 years old is thought that the most desirable time for child sex-education by teachers. According to the type of the children education institutes, it is shown the difference that kindergarten teachers answered the 3 to 4 years old is the best time to be conducted the sex-education and the teachers of the day-care-rooms answered age under 3 is the most desirable time for that.
According to type of the children education institute, the number of times of sex-education conducted each semester is 3 to 4 times at kindergarten, 5 to 6 times at the day-care-room. It presents that the teachers of the day-care-room perform sex-education more than teacher’s of
kindergarten.
The question of the teachers' understanding on sexual language usage, teachers chose the answer the most that children start using baby talk and then gradually develop the correct words. According to difference of regions, compared to other areas, teachers in Jeolla area responded more that they use the baby talk which children are supposed to understand than teachers in other areas.
On the present condition of sex-education materials, most of teachers responded that they are short of or average, and the kindergarten teachers recognize to have less sex-education materials than day-care-room teacher's. The answer to the reason of having less materials for sex-education is due to lack of the available materials which they can buy.
On the effect of the current conducted sex-education, most of teachers respond to be positive, according to the type of the child education institute, day-care-room respond to be positive more than kindergarten.
It is answered that developing the organized child sex-education program, building the sex-education system with home, preparing the sex-education training program for current teachers on the question of the most efficient alternative for the desirable sex-education. It doesn't show the difference by regions and the types of children education institutes.
3. The result of the relation between the teachers' recognition for sex-education purpose and current condition of performance, they respond the most that the purpose of the sex-education is to build the healthy attitude of sex, among to have them know the straight knowledge about sex as each growth level, to raise necessary behavior in everyday life in aspect of guiding the living, to be a human education that sex-education should form the complete character as its goal.
The result of the relation between the teachers' recognition for the conducting time and current condition of performance, without the reason of conducting the sex-education, mostly teachers of day-care-room think they should conduct the sex-education by yearly, monthly, and weekly plans, and teachers of kindergarten think by themes related to everyday life flexible.
The result of the relation between the teachers' recognition to times of sex-education and current condition of performance, teachers at day-care-room and kindergarten, who conduct the sex-education to build the healthy attitude of sex, to raise necessary behavior in everyday life, and to prevent the sexual misconduct and damage, answered to perform the sex-education once to twice a semester,
The result of the relation between the teachers' recognition to the starting time for sex-education and current condition of performance, without the reason of conducting the sex-education, teachers think the age between 3 and 4 would be the most desirable time to start conducting the sex-education.