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A Study on the Effects of Children's Forest Experience Activities on Parent-Child Relationship and Child Attitude Change

유아의 숲체험 활동이 부모와 자녀의 상호 관계 및 태도변화에 미치는 영향

  • Kang, Young-Sik (Dept of Early Childhood Education, Chung-Nam National University)
  • 강영식 (충남대학교 교육학과 교육대학원 유아교육)
  • Received : 2017.12.14
  • Accepted : 2018.02.02
  • Published : 2018.02.28
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Abstract

This study is intended to look into the effects of children's forest experience activities on parent-child relationship and child attitude change. To achieve this, a survey was empirically carried out to 185 children. The results were as follows. First, the normality of parent-child relationship before and after forest experience activities showed that the parent-child relationship increased from 3.229 points before participation in forest experience activities to 3.841 points after participation in forest experience activities on average. And the child attitude increased from 3.226 points before participation in forest experience activities to 3.765 points after participation in forest experience activities, which there was a change of mean value before and after forest experience activities in both concepts. Second, the difference in parent-child relationship and child attitude change before and after forest experience activities showed that both parent-child relationship(Z=-10.98, p<.001) and child attitude(Z=-11.05, p<.001) did have significant differences before and after forest experience activities in the significant level of .05. As for the above-mentioned findings, children's forest experience activities improves the parent-child relationship and changes their behaviors outside the kindergarten. Consequently, nature-friendly forest experience education can provide emotional stability for children and help them build a positive rapport between teacher, parent and peer.

본 연구는 유아의 숲체험 활동이 부모와 상호관계 및 태도 변화에 미치는 영향에 대한 전후 차이를 밝히기 위해 185명의 유아 부모를 대상으로 실증조사 하였는데 그 결과를 보면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 학부모와의 관계 변화에 대하여 숲체험 활동 전, 숲체험 활동 후의 정규성 검토를 실시한 결과 자녀와의 관계 항목은 평균 3.229에서 참여 후 3.841점으로 증가하였으며, 자녀의 태도 문항에 대하여 참여 전 평균 3.226점에서 참여 후 3.765점으로 두 개념 모두 숲체험 활동 전과 후의 평균값의 변화가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 숲체험 활동 전, 후 차이를 분석결과 자녀와의 관계는 Z=-10.98 유의확률 p<.001, 자녀의 태도 Z=-11.05 유의확률 p<.001로 두 요인 모두 유의수준 .05에서 숲체험 활동 전과 후의 유의한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이 같은 결과를 볼 때 유아의 숲체험 활동이 부모와 자녀간의 상호관계 증진과 자녀의 부모나 어린이집 외에서의 행동변화가 있음을 의미하는 것으로 이는 자연친화적인 숲 체험교육이 정서적 안정과 교사, 부모, 또래간 긍정적인 라포형성에 따른 것으로 평가할 수 있다.

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