This study intends to analyze the differences between creativity, multiple intelligence, and self-leadership skills of children in full-time and half-day programs, and to identify the positive impact of full-time programs.
Research issues to perform ...
This study intends to analyze the differences between creativity, multiple intelligence, and self-leadership skills of children in full-time and half-day programs, and to identify the positive impact of full-time programs.
Research issues to perform the purpose of this study are as follows.
First, How did creativity of young children differ according to the half-day and full-time kindergarten programs?
Secondly, how did multiple intelligence of young children differ according to the half-day and full-time kindergarten programs?
Thirdly, how did self-leadership differ according to the half-day and full-time kindergarten programs?
The subjects of this study were 25 half-day kindergarteners and 25 full-time kindergarteners in A private kindergarten located in Daejeon. The study period was from July 14, to September 17 of 2010, and the t-test was executed by using SPSS 17.0 for data processing.
Conclusions of this study are as follows.
First, the full-time kindergarteners had higher sense of creativity than the half-day kindergarteners.
Secondly, the full-time kindergarteners had greater multiple intelligence than the half-day kindergarteners.
Thirdly, the full-time kindergarteners had higher self-leadership skills than the half-day kindergarteners.
The implications from this study are as follows.
First, positive impact of full-time programs on the development of children prove that the full-time kindergarten programs have higher quality.
Secondly, the positive effects of full-time kindergarten programs on children in a situation where private tutoring of young children is continued is same as verifying the effect of specialized education in full-time programs. Results of this study can be the basis which can inform the positive effects of specialized education of full-time kindergarten programs by stopping the continuing phenomenon of early childhood tutoring.
Thirdly, the results of this study may be good previous study on the positive effect of full-time programs that are rarely found in this country.
Presentations of the limitations of this study and suggestions for future research are as follows.
First, there is a limitation to generalize the results by sampling 50 children as the subject of this study. Therefore, it is more appropriate to conduct wider research on various early childhood education and age.
Secondly, the teacher checklist was used as a measuring tool to identify self-leadership and multiple intelligence of children. Because it was made for teachers to make checks, it holds limitation for them to make subjective evaluations. To make accurate evaluation, further research, such as direct observation on everyday life in kindergarten, evaluation through interviews, or development of various measuring tools are needed.
Thirdly, domestic and foreign research on the comparative study of half-day and full-time children do not provide consistent results, and only carried out studies which predicted that it can attribute to the cultural differences and rearing. Therefore, further research will be required in this aspect.
Fourthly, creativity, self-leadership, and multiple intelligence of children may be the variables that can be influenced by family environment or social environment, but such social variables were not controlled in this study. Therefore, study on the half-day and full-time classes that considered these variables is expected in further research.
Fifthly, the quality of full-time teachers and programs were not evaluated. For more accurate research, development of more concrete full-time program model is necessary.