The purpose of this study is to look into how well middle school girls understand traditional living culture as well as traditional costume culture and what influence would exist on their school adaptation according to their perception of them at scho...
The purpose of this study is to look into how well middle school girls understand traditional living culture as well as traditional costume culture and what influence would exist on their school adaptation according to their perception of them at school. In addition, this study would be helpful to give teachers specific school life guidance and to teach units related to traditional costume culture of Home Economics.
For this study, the first, second and third grades of middle school girls were chosen in the four middle schools in Gawngju. And 486 questionnaires were collected from May 20th to June 15th in 2008. For the measuring instruments, the researcher used the questionnaires and the SPSS WIN 14.0(kr) was used as the analytic method of data.
To analyze the data out, correlation coefficient was counted and treated by one-way ANOVA, Duncan-test, correlation analysis of Pearson and multiple regression analysis after producing the frequency, average, standard deviation, statistical analysis and Cronbach α of the percentage.
The results of this study are following;
First, three factors are deducted as requisites for surveying awareness of traditional living culture education that is currently conducted, and they are positive attitude, necessities, and negative attitude on it. Also, five factors, namely, the will of succession, pride, importance, interest, experience as well as attitude on traditional living culture, are deducted as requisites for surveying awareness of traditional costume culture. This study shows that the middle school girls' interest was low on traditional living culture education and traditional costume culture. It is a noteworthy phenomenon when considering the results that they show low negative attitude and attach importance to traditional living culture education and traditional costume culture education. The lack of education about traditional living and costume was proved in that most students say they have had no experience to learn them appropriately and enough to know them. Therefore, there is no doubt that regulations or guidelines about traditional living & costume culture education need to be set up to require teachers to provide students with better opportunity to learn and get interested in them.
Second, classification according to a socio-demographic variable makes a meaningful difference among students' group; middle school girls with high achievement in academy have a tendency to take pride in traditional living & costume culture, have the will to take over the traditional costume culture and think traditional costume culture important than the girls with low achievement in academy. Also, it was found that those who were introverted took higher pride in traditional costume culture than those who were extroverted. In terms of the age of students' mother, students with mothers in their thirties or fifties show the different index of the negative attitude toward traditional living culture education. with mothers in their forties, the negative attitude toward it was the lowest. Furthermore, according to the personality, there was a remarkable difference in their will of succession(p<.01) and interest(p<.001) in traditional costume culture. The more introverted and high scored students, the higher will of succession, pride, interest, experience and attitude they would get. In short, it meant that the students' awareness in traditional living culture education & traditional costume culture was influenced by social demographic transition, and this also showed that the social and home environments affect the students' awareness in traditional culture. Hence, there should be more opportunities for students to be touched with our traditional culture in the school as well as at home. Also, efforts are necessary not only to learn the excellence of traditional costume culture but also understand our culture through traditional culture education.
Third, the results indicate that students' adaptation to the school life is correlated with traditional living culture education & traditional costume culture.
There showed a difference in adjustment on teacher relationship, school discipline and learning according to the positive attitude on traditional living culture education and the necessity of education, and there was a negative attitude which affected the adjustment on friend and teacher relationship, school discipline, learning in traditional living culture education. And there were differences in adjustments on the friend and teacher relationship, school discipline and learning according to taking pride in traditional costume culture, the importance of education, experience as well as attitude toward it. This means that there is a educational efficiency based on understanding of both traditional living culture education and traditional costume culture in students' school adjustment. It is meaningful not only to let the students realize the excellence of our culture, further, but also to make them have a better relationship with teacher and peers in their school adjustment through the succession of traditional culture. Now that they are in the adolescence period, they would not know the exact concept of tradition and establish their subjecthood. So they need to be taught in traditional living culture education and traditional costume culture. Therefore, through this, it is needed to be found in the direction of education for planning of young adults' desirable school adjustment.
Fourth, it is indicated that the awareness on traditional living culture education and traditional costume culture affect the school adjustment on the whole. The more awareness of necessity on traditional living culture education the students have and the fewer negative attitudes toward traditional living culture education they have, the more they are likely to adjust them to their teachers, school disciplines and learning. The higher will of succession and the pride in traditional costume culture they have, the more they can get along with their peers. And then having much more interest in cultural costume culture makes them get higher points in the school tests. According to these results, now that the students' awareness on traditional living culture education and traditional costume culture influences their adjustments on school life, it is a effective way to teach them the basic instructions of traditional living culture education and traditional costume culture in their school adjustment. However, a weak point of present curriculum is that the students themselves find difficulty preparation for learning and understanding in the part of traditional living culture education and traditional costume culture because of both its limited contents of the text. In consequence, to enhance students' school adjustment, they need to be taught the concept of traditional culture and how our culture is distinguished through the textbook. And there also needs to be educational contents that students contact directly. So there needs to be started in education by and large.
Through data achieved through this study, the students' necessity and demand on their traditional living culture education as well as traditional costume culture are higher than those of experience and attitude on them. This means that it should be understandable that students have few opportunities to contact them from the point of view that there is the lack of education either in the school or at home.
In addition, there is a close relation between traditional living culture education as well as traditional costume culture and students' school adjustment so that they would be more likely to influence each other. In that point, it is said to be important that there should be instructions based on the traditional living culture.
In the period of adolescence, the students are easy to have a negative recognition of our traditional culture because they are easy not to be remained themselves and to be unstable. In this perspective, it is necessary for teachers to teach the students the systematic teaching materials and lead them to be interested in traditional living culture education as well as traditional costume culture, considering their interest.