다문화가정 유아가 인식한 행복의 의미 탐색

초록

The purpose of this study was to investigate multicultural children’s perception of happiness. The participants were 26 three-year-old, 25 four-year-old, and 39 five-year-old children from multicultural families in Seoul. The children were asked to draw a picture about happy experiences, and individual semi-structured interviews were also conducted. The result of this study were as follows. First, the major sources of happiness for three-year-old children were social relationships, flow experience, materials, health and peaceful mind, and nature. Second, four-year-old children’s happiness stems from social relationships, flow experience, achievement, special experience, and nature. Finally, five-year-old children’s happiness was related to social relationships, flow experience, nature, materials, special experience, achievement, and health and peaceful mind. The findings are expected to provide useful information for developing early childhood education programs for young children from multicultural families.

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