The research examines the effect of cooperative learning through the conflicts between literary characters on young children's problem-solving thinking. This research was done with 60 six-year-old children in D city. The cooperative learning group cov...
The research examines the effect of cooperative learning through the conflicts between literary characters on young children's problem-solving thinking. This research was done with 60 six-year-old children in D city. The cooperative learning group covering the conflict of children's literature was fixed as the examination group and was compared with the control group without cooperative learning. For this research, the experiment tool for problem-solving thinking about interpersonal relationships was used, which was created by Park Chan-yok and based on Spivak's ICPS. This research estimates alternative problem-solving thinking, cause-effect thinking, result-expectation thinking, and mean-object thinking. This study utilized alternative problem-solving thinking, result-expectation thinking as an experienced tool related to Spivack's pre-study conclusion which revealed that problem-solving thinking has a high correlation with result-expectation thinking in the case of 4-6-year-old children.
This study's procedure was pre-study, pre-examination, the construction of a cooperative learning activity, experiment step, and post-examination. As an experiment step, the cooperative learning activity was dealt with 20 times to each topic covering conflict of characters for 10 weeks. To see if the average difference between the two groups wassimilar, covariance analysis was carried out, which post-examination is considered as covariance after average and the standard deviation produced.
The results of the study revealed the following.
first, the experience of cooperative learning through the children's literature character's conflict was effective to improve children's problem-solving thinking about interpersonal relations.
second, the experience of cooperative learning through the children's literature character's conflict was effective to improve children's alternative problem-solving thinking positively.
third, the experience of cooperative learning through the children's literature character's conflict was effective to improve children's result-expectation thinking.