• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.89-109
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of knowledge that mothers have on child development. To do so, a Knowledge of Child Development Inventory(KCDI) developed by Larsen &Juhasz(1986) was carried on to 156 mothers with an infant range from birth to age 24 months. The findings of the study were twofold: First, 70% of the questions on average were answered correctly by the participants. In other words, mothers generally demonstrated a high level of knowledge on child development. With regard to knowledge of child development, their knowledge on physical development of children was relatively low in comparison with that of cognitive and emotional development. In addition, mothers with a girl were more aware of child development especially in relation to child's emotional development. Also, mothers who delivered a heavier baby at birth possessed a higher level of knowledge concerning child's physical development. Second, other external factors, such as the level of family income and mother's education, played a significant role in affecting the level of knowledge on child development. Unsurprisingly, mothers with a higher income and education level demonstrated a higher level of knowledge on child's cognitive development. The findings of the study implicates that mothers seldom demonstrate a proper level of knowledge on child development. Hence, this study suggests that a practical, functional training services and resources for current and future mothers must be ensued.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.01a
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• pp.109-116
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• 2010

발달장애 아동의 특성상 교육활동의 효율성을 극대화하기 위하여 구체적인 자료 지원과 실제적인 학습이 가능한 현장체험학습 활동이 요구된다. 그러나 많은 장애요인 및 위험요소로 인해 장애아동의 체험학습이 이루어지기 어렵고, 이미 교실에서 학습된 지식이라 하더라도 실생활의 문제 상황에 적용하는데 어려움을 겪는다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 주어진 상황과 맥락 하에서 스스로 지식을 구성하고 적용하는 상황학습 이론을 기반으로 발달장애 아동의 기초학습 능력 및 사회성 향상을 위한 모바일 현장체험학습 지원 시스템을 설계하였다. 본 모바일 현장체험학습 지원 시스템의 특징은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 발달장애 아동의 구체적이고 실제적인 학습을 위해 현장 체험학습을 활성화 시키고 보다 효과적으로 운영 지원할 수 있다. 둘째, 상황학습 이론을 적용하여 단순한 지식의 습득 차원에서 머무르는 것이 아니라 실제적인 문제 상황에서 지식을 적용할 수 있는 능력을 키울 수 있다. 셋째, 시스템 설계시 장애인의 웹접근성 및 모바일 환경에서의 인터페이스의 특징을 고려하여 설계함으로써 장애아동이 학습 공간에 보다 쉽게 접근할 수 있다. 넷째, 학습 모듈별 반복 학습이 가능하여 발달장애 아동의 기초학습 능력 뿐 아니라 사회적 기능 향상에도 긍정적인 영향을 제공한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.639-651
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of knowledge base and metamemory in children's conceptual implicit memory with category-exemplar-generation task. Subjects were total 180 children of each 60 from Grade2, Grade6 and High school students. They were examined implicit memory with category-exemplar-generation task, knowledge base test, and metamemory test. The data were analyzed using ANCOVA, and Scheffe post hoc test. The result was following: First, as the child grow old, implicit memory primed increased. Implicit memory amount was significantly different between Grade2 and High school students, Grade6 and High school students. Second, as the child grow high knowledge base, implicit memory primed increased. There was a significantly different found between age and knowledge base. Third, as the child grow high metamemory, implicit memory primed increased. These results were interpreted as that the state of the age, knowledge base and metamemory should be an important factorin implicit memory. And current findings suggest that implicit memory can show development if a children's knowledge base and metamemory in developing with age.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.41-51
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• 2000

This study discusses the interpretation and application of a post modern perspective to child development knowledge and early childhood teacher education. The survey of literature focused on the post modern approach to child development knowledge and early childhood teacher education, research in the reassessment of child development knowledge as it is challenged by the post modern perspective, and deconstruction of both child development knowledge and early childhood teacher education. It was concluded that child development knowledge is necessary but insufficient to early childhood teacher education. In the post modern perspective, the movement toward fostering "reflective practitioners" and basic knowledge base is more significant. Therefore, the responsibility of academics is to walk the fine line between presenting a formal knowledge base so that students gain assumption to guide their thinking and practice, critiquing both theory and derived practices.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.31-47
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• 2004

This study was carried out to examine the development of physical knowledge in children. Eighty children aged 3- to 11-year-old and 16 adults were participated in this study. Participants' knowledge about failing, sliding and sinking/floating objects was investigated to understand what kind of knowledge they had, whether their knowledge was organized as theory and what was the nature of the developmental change in physical knowledge. Results showed that, for falling object task children of all age had correct knowledge about object's falling phenomena. However, there were age differences in children's understanding of the cause of object's falling. As the children's age decreased, the frequency of explanation referring to the absence of supper rather than the gravity as the cause of falling phenomena increased. For the sliding object task, children of all age could predict the motion of sliding object correctly. But only a few 9- and 11-year-old children could understand the effect of object weight and relations between gravity, frictional force and their interactions. Children under age 7 showed no evidence of possessing these knowledge. For sinking or floating object task, children of all age and even adults showed difficulties in understanding the sinking or float phenomena per se. For the cause of these phenomena although a few 9- and 11-year-old children referred to buoyancy as the cause, they had no correct knowledge about the buoyancy. This was also true for the adults. As a conclusion, the results of this study suggested that, not 3, but as young as 5-year-old children's physical knowledge exited as a form of naive theory in terms of their use as a causal devise in explaining the cause of object motion. However, even the theory of 9- and 11-year-old children was lack of the abstractness and coherence, which were also important characteristics of a theory. Finally, developmental change in physical knowledge proceeded toward more frequent and consistent use of physical knowledge as causal device and more abstract and coherently organized theory.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.264-274
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze papers on child rearing in Korea and to suggest future research and nursing practice directions for child rearing. Methods: An on-line search via 5 web sites yielded 201 research papers. The analysis of key concepts was based on the attributes of parenting and type of knowledge held by the parents. Results: The research papers found in the search were 27.3% experimental and 72.7% non-experimental. Among the participants, 77.0% of parents raising the child were mothers and the children were mostly young children under the age of one year. Types of knowledge related to child rearing varied widely, but explanatory knowledge (55.2%) was the most common, followed by prescriptive knowledge (30.0%) and descriptive knowledge (14.8%). For attributes of parenting, reaction to parenting (49.9%) followed by parenting behavior/practice (43.1%) was most common. Conclusion: Findings of this study indicate that further research is necessary regarding fathers and surrogate caregivers and on prescriptive knowledge for health promotion of children at different developmental stages. Also the results suggest a need for research toward developing child care policies.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.29-52
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• 2005

This study was carried out to examine whether children had the naive psychological knowledge that the mental states ate requited to understand the intentional actions, whether their psychological knowledge was organized as a theory, and in what aspects the knowledge changed as children get older. Three- to 11-year-olds were presented with two types of tasks. In action explanation tasks, children were presented with simple descriptions of two characters engaging in specific actions and then asked to explain the characters' action. In action prediction tasks, they were told stories depicting a character's desire and belief and then asked to predict the action of the character. Three-year-olds explained the action in terms of abstract construct such as emotion, intention, and desire, and they predicted the character's action on the basis of her/his desire and explicit belief but not on the basis of inferred false belief and traits. In addition when they were asked to explain one mental state, they explained in terms of other mental states, suggesting the coherence of their knowledge. The present results suggested that even 3-year-olds' psychological knowledge was organized as a theory, in that it was used as a causal device in explaining and predicting human actions, and it had abstractness and coherence. Older children's knowledge was different from 3-year-olds' in that older children explained the action in terms of more complicated mental states such as beliefs and traits. The nature of the developmental change in psychological knowledge was discussed.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.14
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• pp.27-41
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• 2001

인지적으로 안내된 교수(CGI)는 학생들의 수학적 사고(특히, 비형식적 지식)의 발달; 그러한 발달에 영향을 미치는 교수; 교수 실제에 영향을 미치는 교사의 지식과 신념들; 교사의 지식, 신념들, 실제들이 학생들의 수학적 사고에 대한 이해에 의해 영향을 받는다는 점에 초점을 둔 통합된 연구 프로그램이다. 본 논문에서는 아동의 비형식적인 지식을 중시하는 최근의 연구들을 고찰하고, CGI를 위한 수업을 어떻게 조직하며, 그러한 교수법이 수업을 어떻게 진행할 것인지에 대한 구체적이고 명확한 지침을 제공하지 않으므로 CGI를 적용하는 교실들의 유사점을 살펴본다. 그리고, 마지막으로 최근의 연구들을 고찰함으로써 CGI의 효과를 알아본다.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.53-67
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• 2012

This study was to focus on the effect on parenting stress of children's developmental characteristics, emotionality and mother's self-efficacy, thus to set the structure equation model. Analysis data was collected from 2078 newborns to be involved Korea Children's Panel 1st year. The valuables were all measured by mothers. The main results of this study were as follows. First, children's developmental characteristics and emotionality had an effect on parenting stress directly. A lower level of children's developmental characteristics and a higher level of children's emotionality indicated a higher maternal parenting stress level. Second, mother's self-efficacy also had an effect on parenting stress level. A lower level of maternal self-efficacy demonstrated a higher level of maternal parenting stress level. Third, children's developmental characteristics and emotionality had an effect on parenting stress indirectly through mother's self-efficacy. Mother's self-efficacy which was affected by children's developmental characteristics and emotionality aggravated mother's parenting stress. The implication of these findings are also discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.43-46
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• 2006

본 연구는 단기종단연구로 4세와 5세 아동의 읽기, 받아쓰기와 자모 지식과의 관계를 연구하였다. 아동들을 시기 1에서 측정한 7개월 후에 다시 측정하였다. 회귀분석에서, 시기 1(T1)에 측정한 단어 읽기가 시기 2(T2)의 자음 이름과 자음 소리 지식을 예측하였다. 반면에 초성탈락, 숫자명명, 단어읽기가 모음 소리지식을 예측하였다. T2의 한글읽기를 예측하는 변인은 T1 한글읽기와 자음이름이었다. 반면에, 모음소리 지식과 초성탈락은 한글단어의 받아쓰기를 잘 예측할 수 있었다. 본 결과는 한글 자음과 모음 지식의 발달양식이 다르며, 이들이 한글읽기와 쓰기에 미치는 역할이 다른 것을 시사한다.