유치원의 멀티미디어 활용 실태에 관한 연구 = (A) study oon current status of multimedia usage at kindergartens

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to suggest approaches for effective use of multimedia at kindergartens by investigating actual status and method of multimedia usage and teachers' perception about educational effects of multimedia at kindergartens. Following topics were selected for discussion to this end:
1. What are the actual status and method of multimedia currently in use at kindergartens?
2. What is the teachers' perception about the needs and effects of multimedia usage?
3. What will be the desirable direction of multimedia usage at kindergartens?
Subjects of this study are kindergarten teachers active at private and public kindergartens in Jeonju, Iksan and Gunsan cities as of March 2003. Questionnaires were distributed to 200 teachers of 80 private and public kindergartens who, in a pre-survey, confirmed to be using multimedia. Out of them, 122(61.0%) replied and returned the questionnaires which, then, underwent statisical analyes.
The questionnaires used for the survey were worked out by the researcher of this study in reference to domestic and foreign literature. Frequency, percentage, average and x^(2) verification were used to analyze the data.
Findings of this study may be summarized as follows:
1. It was revealed that a certain kind of program is used to deal with the related living topic and that priority is usually given to the software recommended for children by the regional office of education or at the teachers' training. It seemed that interest of children is always regarded as most important criteria when buying software.
With regard to the place and time of multimedia usage, computer corner in a class is commonly used, mostly during free hours.
Softwares are normally presented in the sequence of living topics in progress during multimedia activities, while the order of difficulties of software is also considered. The sequence of multimedia activities is, however, decided by children and teachers together.
It was also found that multimedia activities are performed in average for 15∼30 minutes.
2. As far as perception about the needs and effects of multimedia activities is concerned, teachers of public kindergartens are more concerned about the necessity of multimedia activities than those of private kindergartens.
Diversified experiences to be acquired through multimedia activities were named as the biggest reson for such necessity.
With regard to the effects of multimedia activities, multimedia activities are considered to be important because they provide chances for children to acquire various indirect experiences through multimedia, to feel friendly with and interested in multimedia learning with various materials. Contents and quality of software as well as interest of children were cited as having exerted dicisive impacts upon the effects.
3. Teachers replied that they thought the prioity should be given to developing multimedia activities to be incorporated into curriculum for children and to improving contents of educational software. In other words, efforts should be made to upgrade the contents of software used at kindergartens to various programs in tune with the curriculum for children and to develop new softwares in full consideration of growth stage, individual difference and interests of preschool children.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차 = i
• I. 서론 = 1
• 1. 연구의 필요성 및 목적 = 1
• 2. 연구문제 = 3
• 3. 연구의 제한점 = 3
• II. 이론적 배경 = 5
• 1. 멀티미디어(MULTIMEDIA)의 개념 = 5
• 2. 유아 멀티미디어의 교육적 활용과 특성 = 7
• 3. 유아용 소프트웨어 = 14
• 4. 유아 멀티미디어 활동의 효과 = 19
• III. 연구방법 = 24
• 1. 연구대상 = 24
• 2. 연구도구 = 24
• 3. 연구절차 = 25
• 4. 자료분석 = 26
• IV. 결과 및 해석 = 27
• 1. 연구 대상자의 일반적 배경 = 27
• 2. 멀티미디어 활용현황 및 활동방법 = 29
• 3. 멀티미디어 활동의 필요와 효과에 대한 인식 = 35
• 4. 멀티미디어 활동의 바람직한 방향 = 39
• V. 결론 및 제언 = 43
• 1. 결론 = 43
• 2. 제언 = 47
• 참고문헌 = 48
• ABSTRACT = 53
• 부록 = 57