(Abstract)
The purpose of this study is to explore the perception of the parents and teachers on actual conditions of preschoolers' private education. In accordance with the purpose, two subjects are set to investigate as follows; firstly, what are t...
(Abstract)
The purpose of this study is to explore the perception of the parents and teachers on actual conditions of preschoolers' private education. In accordance with the purpose, two subjects are set to investigate as follows; firstly, what are the actual conditions of preschoolers'private education? Secondly, what is perception of parents and teachers on preschoolers' private education? Aiming at teachers who have teaching experience in serving preschoolers at the age of 5 and their parents, stratified sampling is utilized based on the number of preschoolers per Administrative District in Daegu Metropolitan City. For this study, revised or modified questionnaires of preceding research have been used and frequency distribution, ANOVA Test and T-Test are implemented to 400 sets of questionnaires retrieved.
The results of the analysis are the following. Firstly, according to the study on actual conditions of 5-year-old preschoolers'private education, the most common types of private education is home-visiting workbook, individual or group tutoring and subjects taught in a way of private education are 2-3 on average for a year. For a period of a year -in the order of art, piano, Korean, English and Math- mostly taught subjects and their monthly average expenditures are ranged from 110,000 won to 200,000 won for private education. Secondly, after comparing the perception between parents and teachers, the result states that necessity of private education is partly accepted between both sides, while some of the differences in perceiving the main reason of having private education, the field needed private education, proper initiating time, time to be effective, selection criteria and ways of implementation are emerged. Furthermore, while there is a supporting opinion between parents and teachers in implementing extra curriculum activities in kindergarten, parents are more agreeable than teachers on the opinion and meaningful differences are found in explaining the reason.
Thus, efforts in diverse aspects are needed to relieve overheated private education spreading and normalize early childhood education. On the basis of a precise understanding of actual conditions of private education and the cause, through providing a wide variety of educational services as well as practical institutional revolution in socio-structural dimension, transformation of overheated private education is needed towards a desirable direction. Besides, building educational value that should be aimed at in early childhood education and through drawing common perspectives between homes and schools in verifying the effect of private education in the diverse aspects, smooth cooperation should be needed. With the cooperation, development of various and high-quality programs is in need to build up professionalism in early childhood education and this will be supported by free early childhood education.