취약계층 영유아 통합적 육아지원 방안 연구(Ⅳ) - 유아기 인성교육 강화 프로그램 개발 및 지원

Abstract

The current study aimed to develop a parent education program whose purpose is to enhance character education in early childhood and to devise an integrated supporting network system to link homes, institutes, and communities with government-run social services for the socially vulnerable. The literature review offered analyses of the curricula of domestic and foreign early childhood and elementary programs as regards character education as well as analyses of the current status of character education in early childhood and the problems in its implementation at home, institutes, and communities. Consultative meetings were implemented to obtain advice and opinions from faculty and professionals in the field, including teachers, in terms of the difficulties involved in character education practices and their needs in relation to the enhancement of children's character education through the education of parents. The programs developed include: (1) a parent training program empowering parents with essential information and preferable parenting attitudes and strategies necessary to nourish desirable character traits in infants presented in the form of sets of parent booklets, teachers’ guides, and a CD-rom, (2) a workshop for parents in ppt, and (3) a teachers' guidebook in parent counsels dealing with examples of children's behavioral problems related to character education. An internet site providing integrated support for infancy and early childhood was built so that different personnel from different governmental services targeting the vulnerable could share their knowhow with others by introducing their programs and uploading their resources, thus promoting inter-institutional interaction and debate.