This study is to direct future Career education for the 6th graders of elementary schools in Jeju by examining and analyzing the self recognition, jobs and vocational world, attitudeis to job, abilit level of making decision of lower fields by their ...
This study is to direct future Career education for the 6th graders of elementary schools in Jeju by examining and analyzing the self recognition, jobs and vocational world, attitudeis to job, abilit level of making decision of lower fields by their gender, residential district, family economics, and guardians' school attainments.
To accomplish it, the concept of Career Awareness, theory of Career Education, and prior studies are reviewed, with questionnaire survey and analysis accordingly.
The questionnaire set limits to 4 lower fields( self -recognition, vocational world, positive attitudeis to job, ability to make a decision), focusing on the guidance maturity test for elementary middle schoolers produced by Kangwondo Educational Research and Science Institute and the Career Education materials from Korean Educational Development Institute. It uses 4 point rating scale per item, with 5 items on each field totaled to 20 items.
As sampling targets, children's local dstribution and the proportion of male to female considered, it selects 477 childrens with an locally equal proportion of male to female. Questionnaires are sent to the childrens divided into rural and urban area, then collected 401 pieces(186 males, 215 females), except those with insincere or no answers.
For data processing, it marks Career Awareness test on the basis of 20, alloted 4 points to 5 each item of a field. So the increased average indicates the higher level of Career Awareness by fields.
A SPSS/WIN statistical program package is used to calculate descriptive statistics by background variable. To verify the correlation of guidance recognition levels by sex, residential district, family economics and guardians' scholarly attainments, it conducts One Way X^(2) and P test. The results is summarized as follows:
First, for Career Awareness level by gender, girls show higher recognition than boys in the attitude to a job, but it indicates vocational world and ability to make a decision to be recognized highly by both boys and girls. This implies that family is interested in the future guidance for children, that a Career Education is well administrated in elementary schools, and that children themselves are interested and have more information in their guidance, showing their Career Awareness actively. So, it need to help children establish right Career Awareness in daily lives as well as to direct them with guidance material developed by Career Awareness fields.
Second, for Career Awareness field by residential district, children of 4 areas in Jejudo, such as Jeju city, Seogwipo city, Bukjeju county and Namjeju county, show relatively high Career Awareness self-recognition, vocational world, and positive attitudeis to job. So it can be seen that Jeju area has little deviation in guidance deviation by district. But for ability to make a decision, it falls into little bit low level compared to other fields. It can be understood that children of these days are weak in ability to express themselves clearly and depend much on their parents.
Third, for Career Awareness level by family economics children understand themselves, those, who consider their financial conditions to be high, show the highest Career Awareness, while those who think it to be low show lower Career Awareness, indicating significant difference statistically. It implies that the higher family economics, the more they are interested in children's guidance and the more educational opportunity they have for guidance option. So, from now on it need to do guidance counselling systematically from the low grade of elementary schools.
Fourth, those whose parents have higher scholarly attainments show Career Awareness highly. Therefore, it need to do more efforts to make parents' Career Awareness high, together with teaching children in schools.