Young-Sik Kang

A Study on the Perceptions and the Needs of Parents on Forest Experience Activity

Abstract The aim of this study was to inquire into the perceptions and the needs of parents on their forest experienceactivity. To achieve this, a survey was carried out on 250 parents of children in a Gyeonggi-based private kindergartenfrom December 26 to December 31, 2013. The results are as follows. For the perceptions of parents on the forestexperience activity, the ‘perception on overall effectiveness’ was the highest, followed in order by ‘perception on educational effectiveness’ and ‘general perception.’ For the needs of parents on their forest experience activity, 58.2%of them recognized the importance of regular forest experience activity. For the necessity of an annual program, 60.7% of them recognized the necessity of a planned annual program. For the recommendation of forest experienceactivity, 61.1% of them gave a strong recommendation for forest experience activity. As stated above, most parents positively viewed childrens forest experience activity in the environment as it is difficult to approach nature in downtown areas, and children also highly viewed the educational effectiveness of it.

The Effect of Nature-Friendly Environmental Education Program on Environmental Conservation Attitudes

The purpose of this study is to figure out the effect of nature-friendly environmental education program on environmental conservation attitudes. To achieve this, experimental research was done on total 40 children of two classes among 4-year old classes in preschools of Chungcheong-do. They were classified into the experimental group of 20 young children(10 male young children, female young children) and the control group of 20 young children(10 male young children, 10 female young children). This study showed that the nature-friendly environmental education program for them has a positive effect on the environmental conservation attitudes. Especially, it was confirmed that the program is a key mechanism to improve sub-factors of environmental conservation attitudes for practice, environmental life attitude, environmental conservation awareness, resource management attitude and resource-recycling attitude.

Relationship between parent attachment and parent motivation of university student

Abstract This research was to investigated correlation between the mother and father‘s attachment and the parent motivation. The subjects were W university student 223 of Jeon-buk province. They took the parent-child relation courses. The questionnaire were IPPA[Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment) and Parent Motivation Scale. The data were analyzed by t-test, Pearson correlation using the SPSS Program. The results were as follows: First, the university students who perceived the mothers attachment higher than the fathers. Second, Parent motivation of the university students who perceived higher medium and the sex difference were no significance. Third, parent attachment were positively correlated with parent motivation. The finding from above results were that pre-parent education program of university students considered with the content that promotion to the parent attachment.Key Words : Parent attachment, Parent motivation * 교신저자: 박정환(edu114@jejunu.ac.kr)접수일 10년 09월 16일 수정일 10년 10월 20일 게재확정일 11년 01월 13일

A Basic Study on Scale Development of Problem Behaviors for Young Children

This study is intended to draw a scale for problem behaviors of young children. To achieve this, an empirical survey was carried out on experts from three groups of daycare center teachers, kindergarten teachers and early childhood education-majored professors. A total of 209 items were measured by the scale for young childrens problem behaviors from the 1970s to now. The results showed that 96 of a total 209 items in 5 categories related to the scale for young childrens problem behaviors were adopted as major items. Using these 96 major items in 5 categories, 17 out of 40 items in a peer relationship category, 13 out of 41 items in a development category, 20 out of 50 items in a fundamental habit category, 22 out of 38 items in a morality category, and 24 out of 40 items in an emotion category were adopted. Most items were adopted in the emotion category, whereas most items were rejected in the development category. Therefore, it is judged that their problem behaviors are caused mainly by anxiety, shrinking, unexpected behaviors, dependence on parents or teachers, and slow behaviors due to the latent negative emotions of young children at the developing stage.

Relation between Children’s Rough Physical Play and Using Social Language

This study is for understanding relation between rough physical play and social language use, providing basic data for developing program improving social language in the play. To achieve the goal, these study subjects are selected. First, what is relation between Rough physical play and social language use? Second, what is effect of Rough physical play of children to social language use?

The Effect of Fairy Tale Activities with Multimedia on Preschool Children’s Prosocial Behavior

The purpose of this study was to find a teaching-learning method to improve preschool children’s prosocial behavior, comparing educational effectiveness of fairy tale activity with picture book and with multimedia, which contained the context of helping and sharing. The results of this study were as follows: First, fairy tale activity with multimedia turned out to have a statistically significant difference in improving preschool children’s prosocial behavior. That is, it had a positive effect on preschool children’s helping and sharing behavior. Second, activity with multimedia showed a significant interaction effect of age and gender only by age. As a result, it suggested that fairy tale activity with multimedia was an educationally effective activity in improving preschool children’s prosocial behavior.