초등학교 현장의 인성교육 프로그램 분석 = An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Character Education Pmgrams in the Elementary School

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness character education programs made by teachers of elementary school from 1995 to 1997. The key criteria for analzing the character education program were the obviousness of concept formation, the connectiveness of the concepts with explicit behavior of the children, parental envolvement with the program, student participation in the process of framing goals in order to achieve them, school climate approach, teacher flexibility and creativity in working with the program and the method of the program evaluation. The collected data were 31 character education programs made by elementary school teachers in Pusan and other areas. The results of this study were as follows: 1) In the 68% of the programs, there were not definition of the character to develop for the children. 2) Most of the programs didn`t express core concepts of the character and it was not linked to explicit behavior of the children. 3) Most of the programs were teacher initiated. 4) There were not teacher flexibility and creativity to adjust character education lessons to individual teaching and learning style. 5) In the 58% of the programs, there were not plans for parental involvement. 6) Most of the programs didn`t have a pre-assessment of the goals, occasional consultation during the program and a post-evaluation of the results.