A study on Teacher`s Perception, the actual condition for the Early Childhood Character Education depend on Teacher`s Personality

Son, Eun-Kyoung; Yoo, Ji-Eun; Kim, Sook-Hee; Son, Hae-Kyoung

doi:10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.12.8915

Title & Authors

A study on Teacher`s Perception, the actual condition for the Early Childhood Character Education depend on Teacher`s Personality
Son, Eun-Kyoung; Yoo, Ji-Eun; Kim, Sook-Hee; Son, Hae-Kyoung;

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out difference by early childhood teachers` personality and individual factor. Also we wanted to find out the status, need and awareness of character education for early childhood education. Our targets are 194 early childhood teachers who are working in D city in Chungcheongnam-do. We analyzed out data with by SPSS 21.0 program. The results show that First, there was significantly difference in teachers` personality by career and age. Second, while early childhood teachers sympathize importance and need of personality education, absence of methods for practice is obstacle. Third, A high level personality group notices that respect for early children` life, humanity and virtue of relationship is importance virtue. Fourth, Therefore they consider respecting people as aim of personality education and recognize that they need to teach right values through whole area as education contents. Fifth, A low level personality group notices that performance of their duty and manners of early children is needed virtue. They consider manners education as aim and content of personality education also recognize guiding with connecting home teaching is desirable. So, teachers need, above all, chance for reflective thinking by themselves for early childhood character Education.

Keywords

Early Childhood character Education;Personality of the teacher;

Language

Korean

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