This study aims at being a foundation to revitalize Ecological Early Childhood Education by researching cognizance and the extent of fulfillment of teachers for Ecological Education using ecological picture books. The followings are research problems...
This study aims at being a foundation to revitalize Ecological Early Childhood Education by researching cognizance and the extent of fulfillment of teachers for Ecological Education using ecological picture books. The followings are research problems.
The first, how teachers understand Ecological Early Childhood Education?
The second, how teachers understand the way of Ecological Early Childhood Education?
The third, how teachers understand Ecological Early Childhood Education using ecological picture books?
The fourth, how teachers understand Ecological Early Childhood Education activities using ecological picture books?
The fifth, how teachers expect Ecological Early Childhood Education activities using ecological picture books?
The five studies were conducted by distributing 350 questionnaires to national and public education institutions, nurture facilities in companies, and private education institutions, collecting, and analyzing them.
Research tools were 34 questions written about Ecological Early Childhood Education and recognition for ways of Ecological Early Childhood Education based on the questionnaire of an advance research for Ecological Early Childhood Education, and cognition, a plan to utilize and expectation effect for ecological picture books, based on research and consultation for opinions of filed experiences from the advisor and teachers on the active.
Data analysis was conducted by frequency analysis using SPSS 12.0 statistics program to grasp general characteristics of the recipients, and One-way ANOVA to search differences in general conception for Ecological Early Childhood Education, recognition for educational methods, and general conception and utilization plan for ecological picture books depending on general characters of teachers. When One-way ANOVA has an important gap, post inspection of Scheffe was conducted to reveal the gap between groups.
The first research problem is about recognition for Ecological Early Childhood Education of teachers, 90.7% of them understand it and consented to direction convert and necessary with a similar level. For effect of Ecological Early Childhood Education, respect for lives of natural ecosystem was at the top, followed by formation of piratical attitude for ecosystem preservation, and recognition co-existence relationship between nature and human. The results are considered as Ecological Early Childhood Education, new alterative early childhood education, as a valuable one by teachers.
The second problem is about teacher understands for Ecological Early Childhood Education, showing not activating Ecological Early Childhood Education activities on the ground. The order of field Ecological Early Childhood Education activities were walking, common play education, gardening activity, environmental conservation, and animal breeding activity. The situation for Ecological Early Childhood Education in the institution gives more weight on outdoor activities than related toys or teaching aids. The conclusion, hereby, is driven that since Ecological Early Childhood Education put outdoor activities the first, activated Ecological Early Childhood Education is unattainable.
The third problem is about teacher understands Ecological Early Childhood Education using ecological picture books, showing that they cognized ecological picture books to a certain extent but have lack of educational experiences using ecological picture books. It is aroused from the shortages of ecological picture books in institutions and teacher training experiences. Still, the fact that comparatively high rate of teachers intended to join in teacher training for ecological picture books, shows teachers have positive recognition for Ecological Early Childhood Education.
The forth problem is about plans of teachers for Ecological Early Childhood Education using ecological picture books, showing that teachers has normal level of educational activity plans, and the order should be followed environmental field, language filed, number and science field, and role field. On the educational scale, small group activity was the top, followed by large group activity, and team activity. Ecological Early Childhood Education is planed an interaction group rather than an individual activity. The greater part of the recipients said 3 years old is proper age, similar with proper age assumed by Developmental Psychologist as the advanced study.
The fifth problem is about teachers? expectation of Ecological Early Childhood Education activities using ecological picture books, showing that based on educational effect using picture books; the order was development of nature friendly attitude, social friendly and ecology problem settlement abilities. On intelligence development, they cognized that using ecological picture books will be revealed similar educational effect to general Ecological Early Childhood Education and nature explore intelligence is the most important, followed by personal relations, language intelligence, and self ?understanding intelligence. When compared to general picture books and ecological picture books, the teachers considered dealing with co-existence between human and nature, wide range of Ecological Early Childhood Education definition, and educating by ecological picture books are easy to access and helpful for the whole development of a child.
As the results, recognition of teachers for Ecological Early Childhood Education using ecological picture books has increased, but lack of teacher training and ecological picture books prevent the education from execution. Still, Teachers has already recognized that Ecological Early Childhood Education using ecological picture books would have been effective, that is, it overcomes existing physical limitation of Ecological Early Childhood Education and enjoys educational effective as same as picture books. Expectation effective of using ecological picture books is similar to that of general Ecological Early Childhood Education programs.
Hence, expansion of teacher training for ecological picture books, and quantitative increase of high quality ecological picture books by active research should have its priority so that Ecological Early Childhood Education would be expanded rather than now.