지역사회 육아공동체 운영실태 및 활성화 방안 연구

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the current situation of communal parenting for infants and young children and to find the policy strategy for activating them. Recently, as the social demand for elementary care has grown, research and investigations on elementary care communities have been actively accumulated, but interest in parenting communities for infants and young children has been less. Accordingly, the following was conducted to examine and support the parenting community for infants and young children. First, the current state of support for childcare communities was identified by comprehensively examining the policies of the central and local governments related to support for childcare communities. Second, a survey was conducted on parents of infants and young children to investigate the difficulties and demands of parents participating in parenting communities as well as the demands of parents who did not experience childcare communities. Third, through an in-depth case study of childcare communities for infants and young children, we analyzed the reality of how childcare communities are actually operated. Based on the results of this analysis, an approach to promote the childcare communities was presented, and policy improvement plans and detailed tasks were proposed to create conditions. The approach direction to activate childcare community is presented as follows. 1) It is necessary to strengthen childcare community support for infants and young children. 2) As children grow and members' needs diversify, the government should support childcare communities to actively respond to them. 3) Childcare community support should be designed in a way that emphasizes the participation of community members. Policy improvement measures are presented as follows. 1) Governmental support for childcare communities should be expanded and systematized, and 2) Linkage and cooperation between ministries and between central and local governments should be strengthened. 3) It is necessary to establish a new childcare community support project for infants and toddlers. In addition, spaces for childcare communities, support for management, and support for empowerment of members were suggested.