The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of integrated moral education through buddhist tales on young childrens moral ability.
The questions of this study for these purposes were as follows:
1. How is the effect of integrated moral e...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of integrated moral education through buddhist tales on young childrens moral ability.
The questions of this study for these purposes were as follows:
1. How is the effect of integrated moral education by buddhist tales on young childrens moral judgment?
2. How is the effect of integrated moral education bybuddhist tales on young childrens moral activity?
For subjects, 38 were selected from 7 years old classes of one preschool. One class was assigned to the experimental group and the other was assigned to the compare group. Young children of experimental group were experienced activity of integrated moral education through buddhist tales on the period of 8 weeks.
The ordinary program was maintained to young children of compare group during the same period.
Before treatment of the study, two groups were tested on moral judgment test and moral activity test. And after treatment of the study, two groups were given for the same tests. Data obtained from moral judgment test and moral activity test were analyzed by t-test.
The tools of moral judgment have been appiled through thr four divisional cases on the moral judgment of Hebble(1991). On the other hand, the tools of moral activity have been applied through the rating sales for estimating childrens habits of National Institute of Educational Evaluation(1995).
The results of the study were as followes:
1. The experimental group of the integrated moral education by buddhist tales showed significantly higher scores in the moral judgment test than those of the compare group. Which proves the effectiveness of the integrated moral education through buddhist tales.
2. The experimental group of the integrated moral education by buddhist tales showed significantly higher scores in the moral activity test than those of the compare group.
Which proves the effectiveness of the integrated moral education through buddhist tales.