The purpose of this study is to take a look at the overall circumstances of the fire safety education currently performed for teachers in kindergartens to understand the need of fire safety education. This paper presents rudimentary data to further in...
The purpose of this study is to take a look at the overall circumstances of the fire safety education currently performed for teachers in kindergartens to understand the need of fire safety education. This paper presents rudimentary data to further increase the opportunities of fire safety education for both incumbent teachers and children of kindergartens with various ways and to protect children in those facilities so that they might be educated in a safe environment.
Based on this research purpose, the following questions were selected.
1. According to the type of kindergartens, how is fire safety education intended for teachers performed? 2. According to the type of early-childhood education, what is the teachers on the need of fire safety education and the ways of improving it?
For these purposes, surveys were carried out for the subjects of 388 kindergartens (state-owned kindergartens, private kindergartens, state-owned child care centers, and private child care centers) in Kyung-gi province and the Seoul area.
The conclusions the present study are as follows:
1) In the survey asking whether they have performed fire safety education intended for teachers, over 50 percent of the 388 kindergatens that responded to the questionnaire were investigated that they had implemented the fire safety education and most the facilities had performed it once. These two facts reveal that the frequency of the fire safety education performed for teachers is insufficient though more facilities implement it nowadays than in the past. Safety-related facilities have been offering most of the fire safety education. When it comes to the educated details, they are almost related to how to look for a shelter when people encounter a fire or fire drill and it is shows the fire safety education is being implemented very partial1y. Furthermore, it was found that the recognition of most teachers on the frequency of the education, the method performed in the
spot, more exactly in kindergartens, and its contents was normal. 2) As for a survey based on question number 2, it was shown that the teachers' demand for the need of the fire safety education for both teachers and children is high. Moreover, in a question with regard to how the fire safety education intended for teachers can be activated, most teachers responded that it can be enhanced and activated by diversifying the contents and the method of the fire safety education. In a survey questioning what needs to be improved when the fire safety education is provided for teachers, most of the teachers responded that it must be educated repetitively but not iustonce. It was investigated that what is considered most important in deploying the fire safety education for children is a proper place in accordance with the contents, using field trips to fire education-related places, and indoor or outdoor education. Lastly, in a survey questioning educationally needed directions, most of the teachers responded that fires can be reduced by the fire safety education focusing more on the situation and experience.