The purpose of this study is to investigate the publication list to good use in the field of the early childhood education through a content analysis on the early childhood environmental education in the picture book and to suggest the basis data to b...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the publication list to good use in the field of the early childhood education through a content analysis on the early childhood environmental education in the picture book and to suggest the basis data to be used for the plan to develop the desirable book.
To attain such a goal this paper selected the following themes.
Firstly, how is the distribution for each section according to contents of the early childhood environmental education in the picture book?
Secondly, how are the patterns of delivering contents of the early childhood environmental education in the picture book?
Thirdly, how are the content adequacy of the picture book for the early childhood environmental education?
This paper investigated 152 picture books containing contents of the early childhood environmental education and published as the first separate edition in the country in recent 10 years from Feb, 2002 to Aug 2011.
Firstly, for the study tool, by referring an environmental education contents announced in the seventh preschool course of study and the contents suggested by the Ministry of Environment(2006), Ji Myeong Hong(2006) in order to investigate the distribution for each section according to contents of the early childhood environmental education, three areas, an environmental concept(natural environment, artificial environment), an environmental problem(environmental pollution, environmental problem on the earth), and the protection of environment(environmental conservation, resources and energy, environmental hygiene) are chosen for the basis of analysis.
Secondly, to investigate delivering patterns according to contents of the early childhood environmental education, a realism story type, an unrealistic story type, a realistic picture style, an artistic style of expression, a picture book without words, based on suggested by Hyun Hee Kim(2000), are chosen for the basis of analysis.
Thirdly, to dig in to the content adequacy of the picture book for the early childhood environmental education, a healthy ecologism-oriented environmental view, a knowledge ecology, a positive influence to thesense of responsibility to build up, an active participation, a sensibility, an accuracy, an appropriacy of early childhood development, based on suggested by Jae Sik Yang(2004), are chosen for the basis of analysis.
The steps of this study arecomposed of preliminary study and its main study, and I collected data after making up a record of book analysis. On this occasion, I recorded once mainly mattered field in the distribution for each section according to contents of the early childhood environmental education, and figured out the other items, the frequency and the percentage by plural records.
Hereupon the result of my research work is summarized as follows.
Firstly, as a result of studying the distribution for each section according to contents of the early childhood environmental education, the books about natural environment were up to 38.8% which marked highest point in its environmental concept. It is because there were a number of books for the natural ecosystem. And next, the environmental conservation in the protection of environment and the environmental pollution in the environmental problem had a comparatively high rate, while the book about artificial environment in the environmental concept and the book about environmental hygiene in the protection of environment were at a remarkably low rate.
Secondly, as a result of studying delivering patterns of contents of the early childhood environmental education in the picture book, a realism story type was 32.6% of the books and an artistic style of expression was 37.9%, which are marked highly. This means that the natural environment, the environmental conservation and the environmental pollution occupy most of books. And next, the unrealistic story type was up to 16.9% and the realistic picture style was 11.6%, while the picture book without words showed very few figures of 1.0%.
And thirdly, as a result of studying the content adequacy according to the picture book for the early childhood environmental education, the appropriacy of early childhood development marked the highest rate of 24.3% showing that most of picture books published in the country were developed fitting to characteristic and requirement of early childhood development. And next, the knowledge ecology, the responsibility, the healthy ecologism-oriented environmental view, the accuracy, the sensibility, and the active participation were listed in order. For the matter of the active participation which showed the lowest rate of 8.9%, it is needed to develop the book dealing with the active participation on the stage of early childhood development.