This study is to observe the impact of cooperative activities with peers on the child's social competence and leadership and to expand cooperative activity to various areas from the field of early childhood education so that it could be informative ma...
This study is to observe the impact of cooperative activities with peers on the child's social competence and leadership and to expand cooperative activity to various areas from the field of early childhood education so that it could be informative material for children relationship with peers.
The research point for achieving the purpose of this study is as follows:
1) What is the impact of the cooperative activities on kids' social competence?
2) What is the impact of cooperative activities on kids' leadership development?
3) What is the correlation between social competence and leadership?
The study has undergone the following process for verification of the research issue.
First, In the study, 15 kids of experimental group and 15 kids of control group from Y preschool in Gangseo-gu, Seoul as the study subject.
Second, the experimental treatment of the study was 50 minutes cooperative activity proceeded twice a week since March 4, 2013 until April 26. The study was proceeded in order of the preliminary tests, pre-test, the experimental treatment, post-test.
Third, the activity with cooperative factors that children can have in their daily life in preschool was planned as a cooperative activity of the study, and the programs related to life topics were selected based on pamphlet(Education and Human Resources Development Ministry of Commerce, 2006) that's introducing activities by life topics of education process in preschool, Practical approaching solution search for cooperative activity(Lim Sunbin, 1997) and Cooperative activity development and effect verification(Lee Nayoung, 2008).
Forth, 'Evaluation scale of child's social competence - for teacher(Lee Haewon, 2005)'was selected as a test tool for child's social competence since it was well-adopted to Korea and developed for teacher to evaluate social competence of child. For the children's leadership test, 'Children's leadership evaluation tool' that is KEDI developed by Jung Hiok, Park Byoungki, Choi Sungwook, Kang Ilguk (in 2003) but modified version with consideration of the developmental aspects and behavioral characteristics of child by Hwang Sungwon, Sa Youngsuk, Lee Sunghui, Cho Jungsin(in 2008) was selected based on the study of Miller(1996).
Fifth, the collected data in the study was treated using the statistics program SPSS. Pre-test and post-test were conducted for the statistics group and experimental group, and t-test was also proceeded to figure out if there is any meaningful difference between both tests. Furthermore, the Pearson correlation coefficient to analyze whether there is a correlation between the experimental group's social competence and leadership and it there is a correlation between experimental effects was also required.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows:
First, the social competence of experimental group that had regular cooperative activities has been improved more than the control group, and the experimental group has shown more improvement also in the sub-region of social competence such as emotional control, social knowledge understanding and technique in relations with peers.
Second, the experimental group that had cooperative activities has improved a lot when it comes to leadership also. The experimental group has shown improvement in all the sub-regions of child leadership such as an ability to meet the goal, re-creation skill, human relations skills.
Third, as an analysis result of the relationship between social competence and leadership, the higher a child has social competence, the higher level of leadership the child has.
Through this experiment, the study proves that cooperative activities with peers have effect on development of child's leadership and social competence.