By conducting character education using pictures books targeting preschoolers, the study aimed to understand how the picture books influences the preschoolers’ peer interaction and recognition of emotions in others.
The research problems to achieve...
By conducting character education using pictures books targeting preschoolers, the study aimed to understand how the picture books influences the preschoolers’ peer interaction and recognition of emotions in others.
The research problems to achieve the goal the above are summarized as follows.
1. How do the character educational activities using picture books effect on the peer interaction?
2. How do the character educational activities using picture books effect on the recognition of emotions in others?
In order to investigate the research problems, the study was carried out as follows.
First, for the character educational activities used in the study, three categories as respect, solicitude and order were determined as the basic field to be looked into via a pre-research on parents among preschoolers’ character educational virtues described in ‘Character Educational Program for Internal Stability Strengthening of Kindergarten Basic Curriculums (2011, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology). In order to design the activities, Volume 1, 2 and 3 of Aliki Character Educational (feeling, manner, conversation) used by SEO Ji-eun (2009) were adopted as the basic reference, and a total of 12 character educational sessions were created with validity confirmed by two Kindergarten directors with ten years’ experience and four teachers in service with more than five years’ experience majoring early childhood education.
Second, for the preschoolers’ peer interaction, 'PIPPS (Penn Inter active Peer Play Scale)’ by Fantuzzo, Coolahan, Mendezn, McDermontt, & Sutton-Smith (1998) was revised and redeveloped, and Peer Interaction Behavior Rating Scales by CHOI Hye-yeong (2004) was used.
Third, the preschoolers’ recognition of others’ emotions was measured by emotional recognition questions made by HA Sook-ja (2001) as HA had revised and interpreted Emotions Questionnaire by Wintre and Vallance (1994).
Targeting five-year-old preschoolers at J public day care center and S public day care center in Seoul, the study put 22 five-year-old preschoolers at J day care center into an experiment group and another 22 preschoolers at S day care center into a control group. From January 21 to May 3 in 2013, an one-week real-condition research, an one-week preliminary test, an one-week pretest, a seven-week experiment and an one-week post-test were all carried out. Add to that, data from the experiment group and the control group were marked by a marking method, and analyzed by SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science) WINDOWS 18.0. After the pretest and the post-test to the experiment group and the control group, the average and the standard deviation of the two tests were gained, and in order to see significant differences in the increase mark, t-test and Paired t-test were conducted.
The main results of the study are summarized and interpreted as follows.
First, according to the results from the question on how the picture book-used character educational activities affect the preschoolers’ peer interaction, it was learned that the activities by the picture books would cause statistically significant differences to positive peer interaction and negative peer interaction.
Second, effects of the picture book-used character education activities on the preschoolers’ recognition on others’ emotions were examined, and the results found some statistically signifiant differences in recognition factors of the others’ emotions as anger, joy, sadness, fear and loveliness.
The findings the above were believed that the picture book-used character educational activities have a positive influence on the preschoolers’ peer interaction and recognition of others’ emotions. The study also understood that while the preschoolers experience proper social interactions in peer groups, they would be able to build up right attitudes as getting to know friends in the groups, which would affect effectively the preschoolers’ peer interaction and recognition of others’ emotions.
In addition, while the preschoolers try to see right into their behaviors and everything and to improve proper expression ability, they can understand and look after emotions in others, building up good personality by themselves. That would have a positive influence on the preschoolers’ relationships with the peers, as a contribution to the preschoolers’ working on proper social relationships.