The idea of this study is to explore the effect of Caring education through Outdoor playing activities on young children's happiness, the Peer Competence, and Recognition of emotions in others.
To do this, some inquiries are posed as followings :
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The idea of this study is to explore the effect of Caring education through Outdoor playing activities on young children's happiness, the Peer Competence, and Recognition of emotions in others.
To do this, some inquiries are posed as followings :
1. What is effect of caring education through outdoor playing activities on the young children's happiness under 4 like?
2. What's the effect of caring education through outdoor playing activities on the young the Peer Competence of emotions in others of children under 4 like?
3. What's the effect of effect of caring education through outdoor playing activities on the children under 4 have?
The subjects for this study were 37 children under 4, in both child care facility M and H. Among them, 19 from facility M as an experimental group, and 18 from facility H as a comparative group were organized. The experimental group went caring education through outdoor playing activities, while the comparative group experienced the simple outdoor playing activities in NURI curriculum.
The procedures of this study were in the sequence of the experimental treatments for 10 weeks, and then the subsequent analysis. The experimental treatments were conducted in 19 times from July 2nd, 2014 to September 3rd.
'The standard of children's happiness' developed by Lee Eunju, 2010 was made use of as a measuring instrument of children's happiness, and 'The standard of peer competence for preschool children' by Park, Juhee and Lee, Eunhae, 2010 was applied to investigate peer competence. 'The standard of measuring recognition of emotions in others was used, based on the emotion awareness clarity questionnaire, modified and adapted by Ha,Sukja, 2001 on the basis of the inquiries into the recognition of emotions created by Wintre & Vallance, 1994 in order to study recognition of emotions in others.
The tests were conducted before and after the experiment, and the results were evaluated by SPSS 21.0. For the basic data output, frequency and percentage, average and descriptive statistics of standard deviation were used.
The findings from this study are followings :
First, the young children's happiness of the experimental group assigned caring education through outdoor playing activities was much more enhanced than that of the group allocated to the simple outdoor playing activities in NURI curriculum.
Second, the peer competence of children in the experimental group assigned caring education through outdoor playing activities was much more improved than that of the comparative group allocated to the simple outdoor playing activities in NURI curriculum.
Third, the recognition of emotions in others of the children from the experimental group assigned caring education through outdoor playing activities was much more improved than that of the comparative group allocated to the simple outdoor playing activities in NURI curriculum.
The study concluded that caring education through outdoor playing activities had positive effects on young children's happiness, peer competence, and recognition of emotions in others. Thus, those activities involving caring education could be applied to improve the young children's happiness, peer competence, and recognition of emotions in others while conducting outdoor activities.