The purpose of this study was to show how 20s and 30s adult people recognize the plays in childhood.
For this study, the following questions were issued and examined:
1. Were there any differences in the need of the plays in childhood among adult pe...
The purpose of this study was to show how 20s and 30s adult people recognize the plays in childhood.
For this study, the following questions were issued and examined:
1. Were there any differences in the need of the plays in childhood among adult people in terms of gender, age, education and marital status?
2. Were there any differences in the educational value of the plays in childhood among adult people in terms of gender, age, education and marital status?
3. Were there any differences between the plays in childhood and degree of growth in infants among adult people in terms of gender, age, education and marital status?
4. Were there any differences in the environment of the playground regular kindergarten course. 30s and married people responded that the all-day-long-plays might significantly affect to the infants growth.
2. On the educational value of the plays in childhood, male responded that the plays in childhoods might positively affect the power to understand and problem solving skill for infants. Female and 20s respondents said that the plays in childhoods might increase the infants sociality. 30s responded that the plays might improve the expressiveness.
3. On the relationship between the plays in childhood and the infants growth degree, all groups recognized that the plays in childhoods improve the human knowledge, physical growth, cooperation skill, and spiritual growth.
4. On the questions to the kinds of plays in childhoods, female answered that they have spent their childhood playing Doll Play, Playing House, and Elastic-String Play. In contrast, male respondents said they killed their time while playing Glass-Beads Play, Picture-Card-Hitting Play and Gun Play. About the question what kinds of plays the children enjoy nowadays, 30s, married, and high school students answered the plays represent society. And graduate students thought of the plays in childhoods as Reading a Picture Story Book.
5. On the time spending on the plays in childhood, most respondents answered that it is better to give the infants an enough time as much as they want to. About the person who the infants played with, the brothers/sisters and friends are ranked equally. Male, high school students and graduate students responded, they think, that 1 or 2 hour is enough to among adult people in terms of gender, age, education and marital status?
5. Were there any differences in the time spending on the plays in childhood among adult people in terms of gender, age, education and marital status?
The subjects for this study were182 male and 218 female among 20s and 30s adult people who have lived in Seoul, Korea and were randomly selected. The surveys for this study were composed of 25 questionnaires in terms of:
1. The necessity of the plays in childhood
2. The educational value of the plays in childhood
3. The relationship between the plays in childhood and the infants growth degree.
4. The environment of the playground
5. The time spending on the play
These questionnaires were made under the professors guidance and on the basis of former existing study. In order to compare the differences among groups, this study was analyzed using X² verification method.
The major findings of this study are follows:
1. On the necessity of the plays in childhood, female and 30s recognized that the plays in childhoods were the most important factor for infants growth. And 20s responded that the plays in preschool should be run as a spend with their children a day. Female, 20s, unmarried and undergraduate students said 2 or 3 hours a day. 30s and married people said less than 1 hour is enough.