Contemporary society is rapidly changing because mutual exchange and interdependent relationship of countries are activated due to the development of information and communications, transportation technologies, and the expansion of market economy. Wit...
Contemporary society is rapidly changing because mutual exchange and interdependent relationship of countries are activated due to the development of information and communications, transportation technologies, and the expansion of market economy. With this reflection, the transference into a multicultural society is accelerated and the influx of new races are increasing in Korean society. Therefore, right recognition on multiculturalism is important. As a result of research result that the experience of media has a great effect on the recognition of elementary school students on multiculturalism, this study formulated multicultural education programs, using newspapers and visual media, whose educational value is high and plenty of studies on them have been conducted as educational methods.
The purpose of this research is to find effective education programs for the improvement of elementary students' recognition on multiculturalism by verifying the effect of this program on the recognition of elementary students and conducting comparative analysis on the application results of class.
Research questions for achieving this research purpose are as follows: Firstly, how do we plan the multicultural education programs using newspaper and visual media? Secondly, What's the effect of multicultural education programs using newspaper and visual media on the recognition of elementary school students? Thirdly, does multicultural education programs using newspaper and visual media bring about the difference in the achievement of multicultural education goal and interest of students in class according to the characteristics and contents of media?
To solve research questions above, it input 14th multicultural education program into the time of discretionary activity according to teaching-learning methods in accordance with the development direction, purpose, goal, contents composition, and media based on the related studies of multicultural education. Newspaper using multicultural program was applied to experiment group I, while visual using multicultural education program was applied to experiment group II. For other contrast group, general class of general discretionary activity was progressed.
Research results revealed that multicultural education programs, which are comprehensive and systematical with multicultural contents of an integrative approach that include cognitive, affective, and behavioral approach based on the development model of multicultural education course, were more positive and effective than multicultural education programs that enumerate one-time program in current programs. In addition, multicultural programs using visual media had a positive effect on the change of recognition and attitudes about multiculturalism in comparison with students who have not received multicultural education. In terms of all subordinate factors in recognition of multiculturalism: openness and respect, the improvement of positive points was shown and statistically significant change appeared. In terms of acceptance, multicultural education programs using visual media and newspaper were more effective than general class. However, there was no statistical difference in the results according to the input of multicultural programs using newspapers and visual media. In addition, in the multicultural education programs, visual media were more realistic than newspaper. Therefore, visual media were appropriate in inducing the motivation of learning and arousing the interest of learning. In addition, it helped the understanding and sympathy of learners. This shows that visual media were effective in affective and behavioral aspects. Meanwhile, newspaper was more appropriate in presenting objective and factual contents with statistical figure, graph, and articles than visual media. Therefore, newspaper was effective in acquiring knowledge, which can understand the generality on the multicultural condition.
Multicultural education programs that are suggested in this research include the media using plan in consideration of the goal, theme, contents of multicultural education, and the learning interest and learning methods of students bases on the theories of multicultural education and learning models. Therefore, it presents multicultural teaching-learning methods systematically and finds its meaning in providing useful indication, which can contribute to the practical use of teachers in carrying out multicultural education in the classroom.