This research intended to examine nursery facility's organizational culture of nursery teachers working in nursery field and general tendency of teaching profession ethical awareness, analyze the relations and verify the effects positively.
The ult...
This research intended to examine nursery facility's organizational culture of nursery teachers working in nursery field and general tendency of teaching profession ethical awareness, analyze the relations and verify the effects positively.
The ultimate purposes of this research are to form correct organizational culture of nursery facility, suggest the direction of nursery teacher's ethical education and furthermore, provide basic materials for good-quality nursery service requested by current period based on this research.
The subject of research was 282 nursery teachers working in day care center located in K city of Kyungpook area.
In this research, nursery facility's organizational culture stereotyped and set relative culture, developmental culture, hierarchical culture and rational culture which were suggested by Quinn & Kimberly(1984) based on the competitive value model. To measure it, measuring tool developed by Jo Insook(2005) was revised and supplemented by Kim Moonhee(2011). And, for the reliability test of research tool, Cronbach's α reliability coefficient was calculated.
To examine the degree of nursery teacher's teaching profession ethical awareness, Korea nursery facility association requested to children raising policy laboratory based on NAEYC(1989)'s Code of Ethical Conduct. sub-sectors of nursery teacher's ethical platform released by Korean nursery facility association in Oct. 2010 were reflected and the degree of nursery teacher's ethical awareness was examined. It's the scale of Yang Kyunghye(2012).
The scale is 4 sub-sectors; ‘ethical awareness for children’, ‘ethical awareness for family’, ‘ethical awareness for colleagues’, ‘ethical awareness for society’. For the research tool's reliability, Cronbach's α reliability coefficient was calculated.
For the analysis of materials, SPSS WINDOWS 12.0 was used. Positive analysis was verified at the standard of significance of p<.05, p<.01, p<.001 and frequency analysis, Cronbach's α, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlative analysis, multiple regression analysis were conducted.
The results of this research can be abstracted as follows.
The first, there were significant differences in career, facility type, marriage, children-raising experience among the social demography characteristics of nursery teacher. In other words, as the career was higher, teaching profession ethical awareness was higher and public and natural establishment, company, home, corporate body and private day care center showed teaching profession ethical awareness for the facility type. In addition, teaching profession ethical awareness was higher when married and possessing teaching profession ethical awareness. On the other hand, there was no significant difference in age, academic background and position of nursery teacher.
The second, all of sub-sectors of nursery facility's organizational culture showed significantly positive correlations with all of sub-sectors of nursery teacher's teaching profession ethical awareness. Especially, rational culture among the organizational culture showed highly positive correlations with teaching profession ethical awareness. In other words, as organizational culture was recognized highly, teaching profession ethical awareness was high. So, to improve qualitative standard of nursery facility, correct climate of organizational culture must be created with interests in nursery facility's organizational culture.
The third, relative culture among the nursery facility's organizational culture made a significant effect on nursery teacher's teaching profession's ethical awareness. Therefore, nursery teacher's teaching profession ethical awareness is Based on the results, this research is significant because nursery facility's organizational culture is a variable which makes an effect on nursery teacher's teaching profession ethical awareness and nursery teacher's teaching profession ethical awareness is investigated from the aspect of organizational culture. In addition, it suggested new problem for improving the quality of nursery service and various following researches are necessary so that it can be utilized as a basic material for improving nursery teacher's teaching profession ethical awareness.