The development of democracy has led the citizen of South Korea to participate actively in politics, but in spite of the fact that there are lack of trust and interest regarding to the election has overflows to create bigger issues in the community of...
The development of democracy has led the citizen of South Korea to participate actively in politics, but in spite of the fact that there are lack of trust and interest regarding to the election has overflows to create bigger issues in the community of South Korea. If the citizen of South Korea can take more significant interest in politics, then the result in disbelief society will become like blossoming a ravish flower. However, the current political apathy has surged to the point where it gave vague hopes to the citizens to become irrelevant. This research was created to give better knowledge and the importances of election to comprehend the elementary school students.
The purpose of this research is to show the educational progress through role-playing, to gather data regarding to the foundation of election training, and to look if there is a possibility in improving the effective teaching of the election education. To achieve these goal objectives, there are methods based on this study below.
First, research the actual condition of the citizen of the Republic of Korea to improve participation in the election, to give reasons why participating in the election is important, and investigate and analyze to come up with the effective strategy to maximize the positive results.
Second, the lecture will include new experiences to students the task of investigation and analyzation. The students will participate in a role-playing exercise to develop new data and come up with plans regarding to election.
Third, after coming up with the plan, the result will be evaluated on the technique and tactics. While performing the exercise, the transition of the students will be investigated and also the behavior and attitude will be analyzed by asking a question, interview, and the outcome of the variety data.
Also, the researcher will process another similar methods for the research:
First, through literature research method, election education and role-playing will be examined carefully.
Second, information about the society and the politics regarding to the election education will be created into role-playing exercise to how will be applied to the actual class. The study will be applied by gathering information on role-playing exercise from a colleague to improve developing data.
Third, the application of role-playing exercise will be executed fundamentally. To analyze the effectiveness, the study will examine the differences between after and before research. To organize the information, portfolios will be given to each students and using the surveys to analyze the each students' opinion and inner-impression. To solve research subject, analyzing the 6th grade curriculum to give mandatory studies in order to give the students in-depth abstract concept of the election-based knowledge. The study will be done using activity-based teaching methods to help guide the students to become more aware of election.
After the application of election education through role-playing and gathering developed informative data, its' significant conclusion was shown.
First, the result of analyzed curriculum has shown that the content of the election related was poor-based on the importance and need a new develop methods in the future research.
Second, after role-playing exercise, the student that had no interest in election became voluntary and active by looking more into election based TV news and internet access by their own interest. Also, before the study, the student who had a negative action toward election has now shown interest and self-confident after the study was done.
Third, the student's point of view on election has changed and gained more interest on politics.
Fourth, after role-playing exercise, the students positively participated in the study, also their presentation and expression level has improved.
Fifth, it has shown that the students are trying to listen to other students' opinion and seeking agreement and disagreement to solve the argument.
For future research, it will need an alternative idea after studying the application of the developing election training.
First, gathering more data and information about election exercise is needed and cooperation within other researchers will also help improve the future researches. As for materials; research outlines, election based materials, PPT, video clips, and flash cards should be more easily accessed because these materials are hard to possess. Therefore, if the materials can be easily accessed, it should give better results than past researches.
Second, if the materials are more efficient and consideration of making the information suitable for elementary school students can make future research more convenient. ※ A thesis submitted to the Committee of the Graduate School of Education, Cheongju National University of Education in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Education in August 2009.