공교육 실시 전후 학부모의 유아교육기관 선택 결정요인 연구

Abstract

Up to date, vigorous researches have been conducted with regard to standards for choosing right facilities for kindergarten education and parents of students’ expectations and desire for facilities for kindergarten education. Based on such previous researches, this research aims at judging the importance of each structural element of facilities for kindergarten education and showing the right direction on facilities for kindergarten education by studying the degree to which parents of students put emphasis on each standard for choosing facilities for kindergarten. This research surveyed parents of students attending three kindergartens and three nurseries in Yeosu City, and a total of 527 people were surveyed and the number of people available was 500. The questionnaire included questions about 1) the need for kindergarten education, 2) time and subject of the selection of facilities for kindergarten education, 3) collection of information on facilities for kindergarten education, 4) the importance of each selection element of facilities for kindergarten education, 5) the importance of each selection element of facilities for kindergarten education after the execution of public education, 6) selection reasons and type of existing facilities for kindergarten education, 7) selection of facilities for kindergarten education after the execution of public education. Data for this research was handled by dividing collected data into background elements (age, job, income level, education level, facility type) and gathering statistics using SPSS 12.0 for Windows statistics program. Conclusions drawn from this research are as follows. First, research results showed that when selecting facilities for kindergarten education, the parents of students value human environment above everything else. Therefore, heads and teachers of facilities for kindergarten education should be faithful to their duties, and make efforts to qualify themselves to perform the duties. Desirable qualifications of the head include philosophy and expert knowledge regarding kindergarten education, understanding and service to the community, reasonable operation, sound view of life and values, harmonious personal relations and attitude to make efforts to form personal relations between teachers. In addition, teachers of facilities for kindergarten education should be well aware of their strength and weakness, be fond of children, be unbiased, have faith in humans and a sense of humor, and have flexibility in personal relations, physical and mental health, sincerity and passionate attitude. Second, research results showed that before and after the execution of public education, among selection reasons for facilities for kindergarten education, the importance of human environment slightly declined and the importance of education contents and programs rose. This means that after the execution of public education, parents of students have faith in the environment of facilities for kindergarten education to some extent, and put more emphasis on contents such as education contents and programs, education for parents and other activities than environment. Therefore, after the execution of public education, facilities for kindergarten education should try to develop education contents and various programs to increase the significance of public education while having environmental factors suitable to public education facilities. Third, as the above results show, while parents of students’ expectations for public education run high, many parents of students of private kindergartens responded that they would choose private kindergartens even after the execution of public education, which can be understood that parents of students of private kindergartens have some concerns over the execution of public education.