The objective of this research is learning how character education through routine daily-life guidance in the all-day kindergarten class influences a preschooler's pro-social behavior along with providing preliminary reference to improve a child’s p...
The objective of this research is learning how character education through routine daily-life guidance in the all-day kindergarten class influences a preschooler's pro-social behavior along with providing preliminary reference to improve a child’s pro-social behavior.
The following are the subjects for inquiry designed for the research objectives:
1. How does routine daily-life guidance through character education in the all-day class affect a child’s pro-social behavior?
2. What are the influences that the three types of character education through routine daily-life guidance exert upon a child’s pro-social behavior?
1) How does individual character education in everyday life influence a child’s pro-social behavior?
2) How does character education through teacher-driven activities influence a child’s pro-social behavior?
3) How does character education through problem situations influence a child’s pro-social behavior?
This research is based on the action research done in the independently organized all-day class named the "Sarang Class" at Somang Kindergarten located in Seoul. The research subjects were seventeen 4 and 5 year-old ones of twenty 3-5 year-old children in the class. The tool implemented in the research was Kim Young-ok(2003)'s pro-social behavior test tool. For the sake of the research, I acknowledged the problems of the character education conducted in the all-day class and sought for solutions for them. I also planned three types of character education methods through routine daily-life guidance and consistently practiced them for 5 weeks in the morning and afternoon on the working days from September 24, 2012 to October 31 of the same year. Of the three types, character education through the individual method was implemented every day while character education through the teacher-driven one was designed to be used once or twice a week.
Then, th third type, character education in daily life through problem situations was done in an individual or a group form whenever problem situations and dilemmas happened when the individual character education was being practiced. To study the result of the different types of character education, I compared the Children's averaged out pro-social behavior grades before and after the character education and analyzed teacher's instruction strategies, children observation data, an interview with the colleague teacher, teacher journals, etc.
The following are the summarized outcomes of this research:
Firstly, character education through routine daily-life guidance exerts positive influences on improvement of a preschooler's pro-social behavior. For such education, care, respect, cooperation, share and order are selected as human virtues, and education to realize the worth of the virtues is conducted, because they equal to pro-social behaviors such as leadership, helping others, communication, leading care, approaching others, sharing, empathy and controlling emotions that are required to get along with others, overcome conflicts and live peacefully.
Secondly, three types of character education through routine daily-life guidance also exert positive influences on improvement of pro-social behavior of the preschooler who attends the all-day kindergarten class. With sole individual character education through routine daily-life guidance, the teacher could find it hard to guide the children to acknowledge human virtues and with only teacher-driven character education, she could have trouble leading her children to practice the value of the virtues continuously. Moreover, we can conclude that character education have fully exerted positive influences upon a child's pro-social behavior only when the three types of character education are done together as character education through problem situations can be conducted when the other two types of character education are practiced.
This research accentuates the need of character education through routine daily-life guidance. On the other hand, it suggests the direction of character education should take, and specific instruction methods. I hope this research helps teachers in the field practice proper and practical character education to our children.