This study aims to examine how grade 3 children's early childhood education participation program influences infant self-leadership and interpersonal problem solving. And it also provides basic data to explore the desirable direction of linkage betwee...
This study aims to examine how grade 3 children's early childhood education participation program influences infant self-leadership and interpersonal problem solving. And it also provides basic data to explore the desirable direction of linkage between kindergarten and elementary school by identifying how infants and grade 3 children recognize such participation program. The research problem for this purpose are as follows.
1. How does early childhood education participation program of children in grade 3 have effects on the infant's self-leadership?
2. How does childhood education participation program of children in grade 3 have effects on the infant's interpersonal problem solving?
3. What is the recognition of infants or elementary school children on the childhood education participation program of children in grade 3?
This study targeted 22 infants with 5 years of age from the E early childhood education institution located in Seoul as the experimental group, and 22 infants with 5 years of age from the M early childhood education institution as control group; 44 infants in total, and the number of children in grade 3 were all 8 individuals. This study used Ju Young-Hee(1982)'s language and thinking skill test to verify the homogeneity of the two group, Lee Myung Sook(2006)'s Teacher appraisal behavior checklist to measure children's self-leadership, and Park Chan-Ok(1986)'s interpersonal problem solving test to measure infants' interpersonal problem solving abilities. It also observes the progress of the participation program and write up interview questions in order to investigate the perceptions and reactions of infants and elementary school children on the participation program, received help from 2 early childhood education specialists and 2 elementary school professionals on the content validity.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, the application of early childhood education participation program of children in grade 3 has been found to make a positive impact on the self-management, self-practice, self-control, emotional thinking, self-expectations, and opportunity thinking from the sub-category of infants' self leadership. Through this participation program, infants could feel positive emotions such as satisfaction, sense of relief, confidence, joy, care, interpersonal interaction, etc, and the program had an effect on self-esteem, promoting infant self-leadership, and children in grade 3 could increase adaptability, helping behavior, communication skills, pro-social skills, leadership, and presentation skills.
Second, the application of early childhood education participation program of children in grade 3 has been found to be more effective in alternative solving, result(or outcome) prediction, and causal thinking from the sub-category of infants' interpersonal problem solving. It can be seen that infants internalized such positive results through their own self-regulation by imitating communication skills and positive problem solving methods through social interaction with children in grade 3. Due to such effects, infants more often used positive mutual-exchange solutions such as request, equity(or impartiality), exchange, etc that emphasizes the relationship with others rather than unilateral self-centered measures.
Third, infants' and elementary school children's recognition on the early childhood education participation program of children in grade 3 has been separated into three parts: recognition on playing together, recognition on helping together, and changes of recognition for their life in an institution. To look at the recognition on playing together, experimental group infants said that elementary children are good, that they are good because they played with them together, and that they are good because they taught them, and elementary children mentioned that they are good to help younger children, that they are good to make friends with their friends or younger children, and that they are good to play with new things. To look at the recognition on helping together, recognition of elementary school children and infants did not match on the type of assistance that each of them had given, and the reason is because each of them had its different role for their assistance(or help). And it examined giving-help strategy of elementary school children, difficulties when giving help, and the solutions. After the programs, when it comes to the recognition for their life in an institution, infants thought that they improved peer relationships, that they has increased mimic behavior of elementary school children, and that they has improved the level and ability to play, and children in grade 3 recognized that they improved peer relationships, that they could increase responsibility for the younger children, and that they improved their presentation skills.