This study, as a basic necessary for researching the current situations of after-school programs used by lower-grades children in elementary school, has the following purposes: to investigate the actual state of extracurricular learning programs for l...
This study, as a basic necessary for researching the current situations of after-school programs used by lower-grades children in elementary school, has the following purposes: to investigate the actual state of extracurricular learning programs for lower-grades children, to identify the differences between parents and teachers in the terms of requirement over the programs and hoping educational activities, and to search the differences in the special-ability developing education of the programs. For this study, the researcher(s) inquired total 300 people of 30 teachers at elementary schools in Icheon, Kyungi Province and the parents with preschool, 1st, 2nd and 3rd children respectively. The result is as follows.
First, at researching about lower-grades children"s actual state using after-school programs, it was found that there were more children not joining in such programs. For the participating children in the programs, the highest rate of respondents mentioned the development of sociality as their children"s join reason. Second, parents were satisfied at the after-school programs for lower-grades children, and teachers considered their own using after-school programs as good ones. Third, there were found rare difference between parents and teachers in the requirements over the extra learning programs for lower-grade children of elementary school. Fourth, regarding over the importance level of special-ability education contents, there appeared meaningful difference(gap) between teachers and parents.