The study aims to see working parent’s recognition and demands for parent education and participation program that infant education institutes provide. Given the aim, the study issues were set as follows.
1. How does working parent recognize parent...
The study aims to see working parent’s recognition and demands for parent education and participation program that infant education institutes provide. Given the aim, the study issues were set as follows.
1. How does working parent recognize parent education and participation program that infant education institutions provide? And what difference lies between father’s and mother’s recognition?
2. What does parent demand for parent education and participation program that infant education institutions provide? And what difference lies between father’s and mother’s demands?
The survey for the study had been done with total 181 persons; 134 working parents and 47 working parents of internet working parent café members whose children were being sent to care centers of Seoul and Gyeonggi area as of October 2006. As the study tools, items were made up with reference to relevant documents, added by detailed items necessary to the study aim and then modified properly following preliminary survey. The outcome from the survey was analyzed by frequency analysis to see parent’s general recognition and demand and by descriptive analysis to see difference of recognition and demand between father and mother.
The result of the study can be summarized by the study issue as follows.
First, working parents, both fathers and mothers, highly recognized the necessity of parent education and participation program that infant education institutes provide. However, they recognized weekday and time as biggest limitations to participate. Also, to upgrade institute’s parent education/participation program quality, teachers’ in-depth study and development were believed more needed than anything else and parents’ opinions and instructors from outside were thought necessary by more fathers rather than mothers.
Second, working parents wished parent education and participation program to be offered 1~2 times a semester, in the mid of semester and on Saturday a.m. They wanted the institutes to ask their opinion from planning stage of the program. Also, in light of parent education program content, demand for children rearing was high. In general, mothers’ willingness to learn was bigger than fathers’.