This study has a purpose to understand the academic education which strengthens the anti-bias education has a positive effect on the human rights sensitivity of children in the integrated class. For this study, an integrated class was chosen which was...
This study has a purpose to understand the academic education which strengthens the anti-bias education has a positive effect on the human rights sensitivity of children in the integrated class. For this study, an integrated class was chosen which was combined with 25 general children, a child with a learning disorder and a child from a Mongolian multi-cultural household at the sixth grade elementary school class, in ○○myeon , KimPo city as research participants.
This study analyzed the subjects and units related to the anti-bias factors in the contents of the 7th national curriculum which are being applied in the education field for the academic education which strengthens the anti-bias education. After the various factors such as disability, age, appearance, class, the constituent family members and faith from subjects like moral education, and Korean and social study were extracted, the total 12 session education contents were revised. And then the academic education which reinforces the understanding of the anti-bias education was put in effect. Through applying a pre-experimental design, the research with a total of 12 sessions upon the research group was conducted every two hours once a week. As a research tool, ‘the questionnaire on question as to the life’ was used that had reorganized the questionnaire on the question of life which was the test paper for an elementary school student in the questionnaire of the index of human rights sensitivity.
The summarizing of the result of this study is as follows. First, after the academic education strengthening anti-bias education was put into effect, the change of the human rights sensitivity of the experiment group was measured. As a result, there was a significant difference in the variation between a preliminary examination and a post examination. That's why it can be explained like that the academic education that reinforces the anti-bias education has a positive effect on the human rights sensitivity of children. It can be considered like that a teaching method revising a curriculum of regular subject has increased the interest and curiosity on the anti-bias education, reducing a bias and bringing much more interest on human rights problems.
Second, the variation between a preliminary examination and a post- examination in every area of human rights sensitivity was compared and then the result was that there was a significant difference between perceiving-situation ability and considering-result ability. So, it can be said that the academic education reinforcing the anti-bias education has a positive influence on the perceiving-situation ability and the considering-result ability among subordinate fields of the human rights sensitivity of children in the integrated class. This shows that teaching the academic education strengthening the anti-bias education is helpful for improving the ability to comprehend how the action taken in a problematic situation affects themselves and others.
Third, with a result of comparing the variation between a preliminary examination and a post-examination in each area of human rights sensitivity, the recognizing-responsibility ability was higher in a post examination than in a preliminary one, but statistically there was no significant difference. It can be said that the children in a integrated class who took the academic education reinforcing an anti-bias education had no effect on recognizing-responsibility ability, which is a subordinate factor of human rights sensitivity. This possibly shows that the human rights awareness that is expressed through the process of both perceiving-situation ability and considering-result ability has a difficulty in being directly connected to practice.
Generalizing above mentioned results of study, it can be explained like that an academic education intensifying the anti-bias education has influenced positively on the human rights sensitivity of children in an integrated class. It can be mentioned that this result of the study shows the way to practice the understanding on an anti-bias education effectively through conducting the anti-bias education during the class time without making any extra time for additional learning.
Key word: anti-bias education, academic education, integrated class, human rights sensitivity, perceiving-situation ability, considering-result ability, recognizing-responsibility ability