The purpose of the study is to find what influences the drawing activity, which comprises listening to anti-bias picture books and drawing the story, has on young children's awareness of physical appearances.
The detailed subjects are as follows;
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The purpose of the study is to find what influences the drawing activity, which comprises listening to anti-bias picture books and drawing the story, has on young children's awareness of physical appearances.
The detailed subjects are as follows;
1. Does the drawing activity after listening to anti-bias picture books lead to change young children's awareness of physical appearances?
1-1 Does the drawing activity through anti-bias picture books lead to change young children's awareness of complexion?
1-2 Does the drawing activity through anti-bias picture books lead to change young children's awareness of skin colors?
1-3 Does the drawing activity through anti-bias picture books lead to change young children's awareness of body?
1-4 Does the drawing activity through anti-bias picture books lead to change young children's awareness of height?
Subjects were 54 children at age 5 who enrolled in B nursery school, Seoul, and who divided into comparative and experiment groups, 27 respectively.
An A4-size drawing tool was made by the researcher using Yang, mihyun(2000)'s interview drawing tool, while Kwon, hyunsoo(2000)'s interview items, which is revised edition of Lerner and Korn(1972)'s VCL(verbal checklist), and selective 10 pieces of anti-bias picture books were used for child interviews.
The study was performed in 10 sessions from March, 10 to April, 23, 2003. For activities, experiment group is expected to listen to anti-bias picture books, talk to the story according to the 3C theory of connection-construction-creation, and then draw a picture as a way to create and internalize the various response to the text.
Comparative group listens to the given picture books, and draws a picture as the same way as with experiment group.
To find young children's awareness, it performs pre-and post-tests by means of a drawing tool and interview items. A SPSS/WIN 10.0 program was used for data processing, and data was analyzed with t-test.
Also, it describes before and after curriculum focusing on young children's cases and anecdotes to find specific changes in experiment group.
The findings are summarized as follows;
First, it is found that young children tend to aware biased against various features of physical appearances either positively or negatively when they evaluate others. For comparative group, the mean value of post-test(M=9.06) is lower than that of pre-test(M=9.31), showing no significant difference but increased bias. This results indicates that bias is increased through social learning over time and with age.
Second, for experiment group with drawing activity through anti-bias picture books, the mean value of post-test(M=11.89) is found to be higher than that of pre-test(M=9.63), showing reduced prejudice, and there is statistically significant difference in all features(p<.001). In other words, drawing activity through anti-bias picture books has influence on young children's awareness of bias against physical appearances, resulting in decreased bias in determining/evaluating others.
So, anti-bias activities need to be performed actively at an early stage of life by more various and direct means, with continuous linkages and systematic contents.