유아 성교육 활성화를 위한 성교육 실태 및 유아교사의 인식과 요구 조사

초록

The purpose of this study was to investigate sex education, to analyze early childhood teachers’ perceptions of and demands on the education for children, and eventually to provide preliminary data to develop effective programs of sex education. To achieve these goals, the survey questionnaire of 26 items, which were related to sex education in child care centers and/or kindergarten teachers’ perceptions of and demands on sex education, was proposed and developed via extensive literature reviews and professional advice. The 362 teachers of child care centers and/or kindergartens in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do participated in the survey and the multivariate descriptive statistical analysis on the collected data was performed by the program SPSS 18.0. The statistical results indicate that 1) sex education that meets social demands was taught in the majority of the institutes, but the instructional materials were very limited, parent education program for sex education was not effectively provided in the field, and the teachers were only educated through regular sex education training of school districts; and 2) the teachers recognized the needs for sex education and perceived sex education to be related to family, but it was found that there were limitations on content, methods, sources and materials for sex education. Based on the analysis of these results, facilitation strategies for providing children’s sex education were proposed.

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