The purpose of thesis is meant to find out a way of improving integrated education by examining the effect of the role playing setting on the development of sociality and learning attitude of the hearing impaired in integrated education environment.
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The purpose of thesis is meant to find out a way of improving integrated education by examining the effect of the role playing setting on the development of sociality and learning attitude of the hearing impaired in integrated education environment.
The object of the observation is two girls at second year in ordinary elementary school. Having taken early special education, they did not have serious difficulty with their communication despite of their severe hearing impairment. However, there were serious problems with sociality and learning attitude. Student A had to sit by herself because nobody want to share the same desk with her because of her unsocial behaviors such as violence, abuse, yelling, and out of position. Student B was over half-hearted and showed problem of not paying proper attention at her class.
In the thesis, role playing setting was adopted as a way of meditation. And the reason is that a lot of researches showed that role playing was very effective in improving personal relations, sociability, morel sense, and leaning attitude, providing an opportunity to understand her situation and other persons state of mind.
Naturally, there came out an assumption that role playing setting will be effective in improving the sociability and learning attitude of the hearing impaired. And the objective of the research was set to find out the effects of the role playing setting on the development of the sociality and leaning attitude of the hearing impaired.
The researcher invented the role playing setting program referring to the existing works and implemented it 16 sessions.
The measuring of the effects on the role playing setting was carried out in three methods.
First, the measurement of the effects with measuring tool was utilized with the measurement of the change of sociality, the Child Behavior Rating Scale, Skill Situations Measure, and Social status measure by classmates were employed as tools. To track the change of learning attitude, the Learning Attitude Test was used. The finding showed considerable improvement with sociality and learning attitude and the effect was sustainable.
Second, to measure the effects on behavior measurement such as the frequency of violence, yelling, seat leaving, distracting was recorded. This maladjustment behavior began to decrease considerably as the test proceeded into the middle of its period and the effects were sustained during its follow-up test.
Third, it is the way of observing and recording of role play setting. To make correct and objective observation and record, videotaped the role. playing scenes and the two observers made record of the language and behavior of the students. The results of the recording showed the process of the improvement of the students' sociality and learning improvement qualitatively in detail.
The conclusion of the research showed that the role playing setting can exert positive effects on the sociality and learning attitude of the children in integrated educational setting.