Though traditional playing effects positively on young children's such as making to form the identity to people culture while has the merit in early childhood education as a playing, this study focuses on the reason that our traditional playing is ha...
Though traditional playing effects positively on young children's such as making to form the identity to people culture while has the merit in early childhood education as a playing, this study focuses on the reason that our traditional playing is hard to find these days due to rapid industrialization and westernization of our society. Also, it becomes only an event of traditional holidays even in early childhood education. The aim of this study is to define the effect of traditional playing activities on emotional intelligence and social competence of young children's in order to provide necessary basic data for adapting them to early childhood education site as systematic traditional playing program.
According to above aim, researching questions are set as followings:
1) Which impact is made on emotional intelligence of young children's by traditional playing activity?
2) Which impact is made on social competence of young children's by traditional playing activity?
The subjects of this study are five aged 30 young children's who attending to G Child care center located on Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.
Test procedure was progressed as preliminary test, testor training, pre-test test treatment, post-test in order, and the periods of test treatment are total 8 weeks from Aug. 17th, 2009 to Oct. 30th, 2009. Traditional playing activities were implemented to test group twice or three times per week. Control group is made to participate to various playing activities based on curriculum of child care center naturally, instead.
In order to measure emotional intelligence of young children's, 'young children's Emotional Intelligence Rating Scale for Teachers' which was developed by Kim Gyeong-Hoe(1999) through validation verification based on concept model of emotional intelligence suggested by revising by Salovey and Mayer(1996) was used.
The tool used in order to measure social competence of young children's was social competence scale of Gweon Yeon-Hee(2002) who translated 'Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation: SCBE' simple edition of LaFrenier and Dumas(1996).
In order to search the effect of traditional playing activities on emotional intelligence and social competence of young children's, after calculating average and standard deviation acquired from pre-test and post-test between test group and control group, t-test and paired t-test were conducted to recognize the significant difference of gain on scale score.
The results of this study are as followings:
First, it is indicated that traditional playing activity has the effect on increasing emotional intelligence of young children's. It is indicated that in sub-areas of young children's emotional intelligence such as 'use of self-emotion', 'recognition and consideration of others' emotions', 'recognition and expression of self-emotion', 'emotion control and impulse inhibition', 'relation with teacher', and 'relation with colleagues', test group was statistically improved more than comparative group.
Second, it is indicated that traditional playing activity has the effect on increasing social competence of young children's. It is shown that in sub-area of social competence of young children's such as 'positive-society-friendly behavior', test group was statistically increased more than comparative group and in 'nervous-scared behavior' and 'rageful and aggressive behavior', test group was statistically decreased more than comparative group. Based on such study results, the conclusion is that traditional playing activity is effective in developing emotional intelligence and social competence of young children's.