This Study was to investigate the effects having on the changes of children's image and attitudes about the physically handicapped children through the programs of image formation which are able to give physical features·knowledges and contact exper...
This Study was to investigate the effects having on the changes of children's image and attitudes about the physically handicapped children through the programs of image formation which are able to give physical features·knowledges and contact experiences on the physically handicapped children to common children systematically and intentionally.
The purpose of this study is to find the effects having on attitude' structures of children about the physically handicapped children through image which have been formed by the programs of image formation about the physically handicapped children.
The subjects of this study had been sampled intentionally. They were designed 780 elementary students who were from each one class at the second, fourth, sixth grade of three elementary schools in busan and they are randomly divided into two groups: experimental group(376 students) and control group(404 students).
The Semantic Differential Scale Toward the Physically Handicapped Children(SDTP) used in this study were composed of 23 adjective pairs. Also, the Scale of Attitude Toward Physically handicapped Children( SATP) of children consisted of 34 items in Likert' scale. This scales were applied both an experimental image and attitudes after applying the programs of image formation about the physically handicapped children.
And the experimental processing program in this study gives features of the handicapped children (facial expressions, languages, attitudes and walking), knowledges and indirect experiences to children. It is given experimental group 40 minutes per one time for 48 times. And this study used before-after equivalent control group design of two transformed group. Images and attitude's changes of children about the physically handicapped children verified the main and interaction effects through variance analysis of the distinction of gender(2) and grade(3). And the effects on having the changes of attitude's structures through image formed about the physically handicapped children took a regression analysis.
The results of this study are as follows.
First, in case of the children who are applied the programs of image formation about the physically handicapped children, their evaluative images were changed positively. And as becoming higher grade the image of the physically handicapped children showed a tendency to change positively. On the other hand, there was no difference in the distinction of gender. Namely, the image formation giving physical clues, knowledges and contact experiences about the physically handicapped children to the elementary school children made the images about the physically handicapped children positively.
Second, the children applied the programs of image formation turned into having positive thinking about the physically handicapped on the side of structures of emotional attitudes and behavioral prejudice structures. These changes gave rise to positive attitudes about the physically handicapped children, but degree of the changes was different according to the features of children's grade. In other words, the images about the physically handicapped children changed positively as becoming higher grade. But the attitudes about the physically handicapped children didn't appear regular changes because they take influence on features of children's grade.
Third, The evaluative images about the physically handicapped children made changes in the structures of emotional attitudes. And the areas of active and potential images made changes in the structures of emotional and cognitive attitudes. Namely, The dimension of images was factors accuring changes of attitude' structures. Especially, The attitudes of children about the physically handicapped children can be made positively through changes of the dimension of evaluative images about the physically handicapped children.
Accordingly, for the integrated education with the handicapped children including the physically handicapped children, understanding educational programs on the handicapped children which are able to give knowledges and contact experiences about then in the common school curriculum will have to come into effect. Moreover, using semantic differential scale, so as to verify its reliance and validity these studies measuring the images of common children about the physically handicapped children have to be fulfilled constantly. And these studies have to be accomplished to kindergarten kids as well as common elementary school students. Also image studies on other handicapped area and serious handicapped children have to be realized. Finally, as images and attitudes are kinds of psychological state mixed various psychological effects complexly, academical approaches will have to be processed in the studies about images and attitudes on the handicapped children through taking socio-psychological method of studies and theories.