In recent days, our country's education puts growing stress on child- centered or experience-based teaching method, and this trend is more notable in early childhood education. The field trip study is as one of child-centered or experience-based educa...
In recent days, our country's education puts growing stress on child- centered or experience-based teaching method, and this trend is more notable in early childhood education. The field trip study is as one of child-centered or experience-based education methods' and requires make more thorough on-the-spot study program for young children.
The purpose of this study was to explore ways to improve field trip study in kindergartens and on daycare centers, by examining how that field trip study was actually being implemented and what teachers thought on it.
The subjects in this study were 204 teachers and directors who served at 204 kindergartens and on daycare centers in Seoul. The data were analyzed by SPSS program, and the frequency and Chi-square analysis were employed.
The findings of this study were as follows:
First, the field trip program was made chiefly when teachers' meeting. In selecting places. the first consideration was given visiting proposes. The field investigation was scarcely made in advance, and most of the institutes performed safety education. The most largely used activity before field trip study was that teacher's talking about what they were going to see during that field trip. The institutes, however, rarely tried to forecast what would happen during that study and consider how to cope with it. Most of settings didn't ask parent's agreement to field trip study. The teachers gave explanation on the place they visited in their own way, without referring to any particular data. Most of the young children guided by the teachers didn't record what they saw and or heardn, or ask a question enough.
After on-the-spot study, the young children were engaged in post- activity, focusing on what they were most impressed, and the teachers completed that study just by making a simple record.
Second, National or public institutes prepared more experiential activities and asked parent's agreement more than private institutes did.
Third, teachers expreanced the most important goal of field trip activities was to acquire appropriate behavioral pattern to live with others. The teachers placed very positive value on the effect of field trip study, while they had to worry about safety problem.
The most crucial measure to step up field trip study was identified as developing a variety of places they could visit for study, and the next most critical thing was to build a connection between preactivity, field trip study and postactivity.