In this research, I studied on how picture books dealt with friendship by analyzing the friendship's construction stages, form and role in picture books. Specific research topics are as follows.
1. How do the picture books portray the friendship's co...
In this research, I studied on how picture books dealt with friendship by analyzing the friendship's construction stages, form and role in picture books. Specific research topics are as follows.
1. How do the picture books portray the friendship's construction stages?
2. How do the picture books portray the friendship's form?
3. How do the picture books portray the friendship's role?
This study's objects are 110 books, among the books published in Korea of late about 10years from January. 1999 to September. 2009, and the books have the main subject of friendship and show friendship's construction stages, form, role.
In this study, I classified friendship ideas development stages into 3 levels proposed by Damon(1977, Han Yeongja, Kwak Eunbok, Kim Minjeong, Jang Seongok, referred again in 2007 p.40) for finding friendship's construction stages out. On this occasion, I aimed at only 23 books representing friendship in 3 stages for analyzing friendship's form and role.
To figure out friendship's form, I used the categories such as members' number, classification, age lineup in friendship based on preceding research. To make out friendship's role, I used the subordinate categories utilized by Parker and Asher(1993) for evaluating quality of friendship, and analyzed them with classifying 5 sorts such as companionship and recreation, validation and caring, intimate exchange, help and guidance, conflict resolution.
I collected the data about friendship by framing book analysis recording paper for analyzing data. When analyzing friendship's role, if the role, which was included by several categories in a book, appeared, I recorded plurally. I calculated frequency and percentage by treating same categories' repeated performances as single performance.
The conclusion of this study is as follows. First, friendship's construction stages in the picture books appeared most frequently in the first stage, followed by the second stage, the third stage in the order named.
Second, the results of inquiry into friendship's form in the picture books, most frequently consist of 2 members, followed by 6 members in the order named. In the member's classification of friendship, the friendship between animal and animal appeared most frequently, followed by between person and person, between person and animal, between person and other member's friendships in the order named. The member's age lineup appeared most frequently among same aged people, followed by among the people including 'unknown aged people' and grown-up in the order named.
Third, The friendship's role in the picture books, most frequently appeared as companionship and recreation, followed by help and guidance, validation and caring, conflict resolution, intimate exchange in the order named.