This study focuses on the influence of the traditional game activities on the self-leadership and the concept of the ego of a child. Also, it provides the basic data for the activation of such traditional game activities including songs in the field f...
This study focuses on the influence of the traditional game activities on the self-leadership and the concept of the ego of a child. Also, it provides the basic data for the activation of such traditional game activities including songs in the field for the children's education.
The problems for the achievement of the goals in this study are as follows.
1. What influence do the traditional game activities have on the self-leadership of a child?
2. What influence do the traditional game activities have on the concept of the ego of a child?
3. What is the correlation coefficient between the self-leadership and the concept of the ego?
In this study, the following steps have been provided for the confirmation of the research problems.
First, the structure of the traditional game activities used in this study is based on the development and interest of the child. The goal of the process is to develop the self-leadership and the concept of the ego. Based on the books containing the traditional game activities(Ministry of Education, 1993; Gyeonggi-do Educational Bureau, 1997; Haemun Pyeon, 2002; Sukgyeong Kim, 2006) and the five living areas suggested by the seventh kindergarten educational process(Sugyeong Oh, 2008), academic materials have been developed. With such materials, one professor with a major in the children's education, one expert in the field of the traditional game songs, two directors of kindergartens with the experience of twenty years, one deputy-director and twelve teachers participated in the study to select eight traditional games to be applied.
Second, the inspection tool used to identify the self-leadership of a child is the [teacher's checklist for children's self-leadership activities] which has been developed by Myeongsuk Lee(2007). For the inspection of the ego for the children, the inspection tool for pictures, which has been developed by using [I feel... Me feel] created by Bentley and Yeatts(1974) and translated and modified by Chungeum Im(1995) for the educational conditions in Korea, has been used.
This study has been carried out with the experimental group made of 17 children under the age of 5 from Y kindergarten located in Seoul, and the controlling group made of 17 children under the age of 5 from C kindergarten. It was carried out for a week between August 17 and October 30, 2009. The process was divided into the one-week preliminary inspection, the one-week advance inspection, the eight-week experimental management and the one-week follow-up inspection. In addition, collected data were analyzed by using SPSS WINDOWS 12.0 program. And, for the calculation of basic data, frequency & percentage, and technical statistic quantity of average and standard deviation were used. And, for the reliability verification of used measure, Cronbach's a coefficient was calculated. In addition, so as to grasp whether there is significant difference in the marks of increase portion after calculating average and standard deviation of prior test and post test, this researcher executed t-test and paired-t test. And, so as to grasp the relation between the self-leadership and the concept of the ego of a child, this researcher made correlation analysis of Pearson.
The conclusion for the research problems suggested in this study is as follows.
First, after carrying out various traditional game activities in order to confirm the influence on the self-leadership of the child, it has become known that such sub-fields as self-management, natural reward and constructional thought have been improved.
Second, after carrying out various traditional game activities in order to confirm the influence on the concept of the ego, it has become known that such sub-factors for the concept of the ego as the cognitive, emotional, social and physical concepts of the ego have been improved.
Third, by analyzing the correlation coefficient between the self-leadership and the concept of the ego after carrying out the traditional game activities, it has become possible to confirm that as the level of leadership increases, the level of the concept of the ego increases.
Such results have been provided by the interaction between people in the same age group during the process of the traditional game activities. Through such a process, it is possible for the child to control and manage himself or herself. Also, in order to solve a problem, the child has to provide various thoughts that will be used to provide the capacity as a self-leader. Through such feelings as pleasure, achievement and confidence, which are obtained in the process, the child experiences positive influence on the concept of his or her ego. In other words, the traditional game activities suggested in this study can be regarded as positive educational activities for the establishment of the self-leadership and the concept of the ego for the child. Therefore, it is necessary to provide the child with a chance to experience the traditional game activities early when his or her ego starts to be formed.