• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.724-729
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• 2008

Well-integrated science instruction with art often motivates students to more engage in science learning and to freely express their thoughts and feelings on what they have learned in science classes. This study, therefore, attempted to explore Korean children's imaginary science drawings. Ninety elementary students ($3^{rd}-6^{th}$ graders) in Seoul, South Korea, participated in this study. The guiding research questions were 1) what overall characteristics of students' imaginary science drawings are and how these characteristics represent children's image of science, and 2) what educational value of children's imaginary science drawing activity as a case of science-art integration is. Data sources included a set of children's drawings and individual interviews with selected students. From the drawings, it was found that most of the subjects that children drew tended to be limited to the space. In addition, the children tended to assimilate science into technology that makes our life more convenient. We also found imaginary science drawing can be a good science-art integrated instruction method. Imaginary science drawing has educational benefits; one is a tool to investigate children's thoughts and knowledge of science while the other is method that motivate children to learn science effectively.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2013

Recently, interest and social expectation for children's environment are on the rise. The needs for construction of safe and pleasant child care environment has bees agreed with. Especially, as the number of children who are wanted to go center jumped with additional support the government for child care business, centers have also seen a boost. But as number of child care centers increases rapidly in short period, the quality of centers is more inferior to before. and the space and facility level of many centers don't reach in legal minimum standard. In addition to, when child care centers are reviewed, it tend to be judged by one standard without considering connection with sense of values about child care or philosophy, child's traits, surrounding environment etc. Therefore, it is important to construct environment that can consider children's physical development and behavioral characteristic as well as basic element such thing as protection and support activity for current child care centers. This study presupposes that physical environment of child care centers makes important effect on teacher's motion and child's development, then it is to investigate it's characteristics in physically space, facilities, outdoor playground. And It is to identify space and accommodations, outdoors facilities which can support activity smoothly inside and outside. As a result, it is try to offer appliable basic information about the child-friendly environment of child care centers.

• 한국주거학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국주거학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.255-258
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• 2005

Currently open spaces of an apartment housing complex are considered in Korea as a negligible live Place that only contributes to enlarge its construction capacity of an apartment without taking its effects on the living quality into account. This trend reduces outdoor playing activities of the children who are the main users of open spaces and consequently has a negative influence on the child's growth. Therefore it is a imminent problem that we should provide open space utilizing plans on the basis of the study upon the types of the children's playing activities within the residential environment. The study purpose is finding about an outside activity of the child takes any influence according to an apartment disposition format.

• 의료ㆍ복지 건축 : 한국의료복지건축학회 논문집
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2007

The theme of this study is holistic healing environment of children's library and it was researched on the basis of anthroposophy theory of Rudolf Steiner. According to Steiner's theory, human being consists of body, spirit, and soul. Especially, children are sensitive ones, and through synthetic function of 12 kinds of senses, they can be holistically healed (healing of body, spirit, and soul). As the sense independently functions or it is a element that cannot be described, it needs spatial plan to support synthetic function of it. We classified the healing space's meaning of children library by motion (including art and music), reading, & landscape healing activities and analyzed spatial characteristic to support each activity.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.24-31
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• 2022

Objective: This study attempted to find out if it changes the child's ability to perform daily life activities when visiting the familiar environment and daily living space of children with cerebral palsy and conducting a home activity support program for children and parents. Design: Randomized Controlled Trial Methods: Among 22 children aged 3 to 12 years old, they were assigned to the intervention group and control group. Of these, 12 boys and 10 girls participated in the study. Gross motor function measure and upper extremity function evaluation were used to measure the physical function of children with cerebral palsy, and self-care skills, mobility and social functions were evaluated in the pediatric evaluation of disability inventory. In addition, a parenting sense of competence was used to find out the efficacy of parents in raising children. After the pre-evaluation, basic rehabilitation treatment and intervention programs were applied to the intervention group, and only basic rehabilitation treatment was performed to the control group, and post-evaluation was performed 8 weeks later. Results: As a result of the study, among the items that measured the gross motor function, upper limb function, and daily life performance ability of the intervention group in the difference between the intervention group and the control group, statistically improved in personal processing and movement (p<0.05). In addition, the parenting sense of competence children in the intervention group was statistically significant (p<0.05). Conclusions: The home activity support program will help strengthen the ability of cerebral palsy children to perform daily life as a way to set mutually agreed goals with their families or children and achieve them in a familiar environment.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.162-176
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• 2016

숲공간에서의 경험과 놀이가 유아의 성장과 발달에 효과적으로 작용하는 것으로 밝혀지면서, 최근 숲활동공간에 대한 연구와 관련 조성사업이 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 그러나 많은 연구들이 숲활동의 효과를 중심으로 하고 있어, 숲활동을 위한 공간설계에 적용하기에는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 숲활동공간의 물리적 환경특성이 유아놀이행태와 유아발달 과정에 미치는 영향을 파악하여, 숲활동공간 설계 시 적용할 수 있는 근거를 제공하고자 한다. 연구방법으로는 우선 유아발달과정의 지표인 인지 사회놀이를 유아의 놀이행태유형으로 선정하고, 숲활동공간은 놀이시설공간과 숲속공간으로 구분하였다. 각 공간의 환경특성으로는 놀이시설공간의 경우, 놀이영역과 포장재, 숲속공간의 교목 및 관목밀도, 경사, 포장재, 자연낱개재료로 선정하였다. 환경조사와 행태관찰조사를 바탕으로 만 4, 5세 유아들이 각 공간에서 보이는 놀이행태의 유형과 발생빈도를 조사분석하였다. 연구결과, 1) 놀이시설공간에서는 시설과 모래장이 함께 있는 시설물놀이터에서 놀이행태가 높게 발생했으며, 인지 사회놀이는 기능-혼자와 기능-병행놀이가 우세하게 발현되었다. 2) 숲속공간에서는 낮은 밀도의 식재공간과 자연낱개재료가 있는 환경에서 다양한 유아놀이행태가 나타났고, 기능-집단놀이와 발달단계의 최상위인 상징-집단놀이가 높은 빈도로 나타났다. 3) 상징-집단놀이는 소밀도 이하의 교목, 10~20도 경사, 땅에 고정된 대형 그루터기의 환경특성에 더 큰 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 결과는 유아들의 놀이행태를 직접 관찰하고 분석함으로써, 유아들의 숲활동을 위한 공간조성시 적용할 수 있는 물리적 환경특성의 기준이 될 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.274-284
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• 2016

본 연구는 테마형 박물관 중 하나인 춘천 애니메이션 박물관의 어린이 놀이공간(에어바운스)을 대상으로 실제 공간을 이용하는 어린이들의 놀이행태와 놀이환경을 분석하였다. 이를 위해 어린이들의 특성을 고려하여 사용자 조사법 중 사용자 관찰법과 사용자 행동 인터뷰 조사를 병행하였다. 사용자 관찰법을 통해 연구 대상지의 어린이 놀이행태를 분석한 결과, 신체 운동, 정서, 인지, 사회성 발달과 관련된 놀이행태가 모두 관찰되었으나, 매달리거나 역할놀이와 같은 일부 행동은 관찰되지 않았다. 사용자 관찰법과 인터뷰 조사 등을 종합하여 이용밀도(수용력) 제한, 연령별 공간구분, 동반자 대기공간 조성, 아동과 동반자간 친밀감형성을 위한 공간 조성, 안전요원의 배치 등의 다양한 계획적 함의들이 도출되었다. 이러한 연구결과는 추후 유사한 어린이 놀이공간의 계획 및 설계단계에서 유용한 가이드라인으로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2014

Background: Despite children's unique characteristics that distinguish them from adults, relatively few attempts have been made to measure exposure factors for characterization of children's exposure to hazardous chemicals in child-specific products (CSP). This study was conducted to establish the child-specific exposure factors for exposure and risk assessment of hazardous substances in CSP. Methods: We investigated the exposure factors (e.g., time use of child-products, time and frequency of object-to-body contact, time and frequency of object-to-mouth contact) influencing children's exposure to CSP (e.g., toys, playmats, oil pastels, etc.) in 650 children through a parent-completed questionnaire using a web-based survey. Participants were recruited in five age groups, <1, 1-2, 2-3, 3-6, and 6-12 years of age. Results: The child-specific exposure factors were presented as the mean, median, $95^{th}$ percentile, minimum, and maximum values. Time activity for play mats was the longest among CSP and infants spent more time on them than did elder age groups (189.3-224.7 min/day for <1-2 years vs. 91.2 min/day for 6-12 years). It is apparent that time and frequency of toy block- and plastic toy-to-mouth contact significantly decreased as a function of age. When the variation of CSP use patterns was compared by gender, the only variable that was statistically different between genders was time activity in child-products exposure space. Conclusion: We believe the five child-specific exposure factors suggested in the present study will be valuable for reducing uncertainty in the estimation of chemical exposure during risk assessment of CSP and furthermore, in the appropriate regulations to protect children's health.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.777-788
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to assess physical activities and activity coefficient of preschool children and was to give some concrete information to activate outdoor play and to probe the suggestions to activate outdoor play. 42 preschool children (17 boys and 25 girls) were included. Body weight and height were measured and one-day activity diaries were collected by interviewing with their parents and kindergarten teachers. To measure physical activity during outdoor play, this study was researched the current conditions and content of outdoor play activity in daycare centers, and teacher's perceptions of that outdoor play. The average age of the subjects was 5.0 years. Average height, weight, body fat and body muscle of subjects were 108.9 cm, 18.9 kg, 17.7% and 26.8%, respectively. The subjects spent about 10 hours 39 minutes sleeping; 4 hours 16 minutes personal hygiene and computer working. They spent 88.2% of 24 hours (one day) in "very light activities" and 11.3% in "light activities". Activity coefficient (1.34) of weekday was significantly higher than that of weekend (1.21). And in this study, it was found that most of daycare centers (87.7%) have outdoor play space, 95.2% of them were garden. The teachers recognized that have a outdoor play frequency everyday (48%), three or four times (46%) in a week but they have three or four times (38%), one or two times (30%) because of various indoor program. Also, they recognized that have a outdoor play expending time 21-30 minutes (48%), 31-40 minutes (26%) but they have 21-30 minutes (64%). They answered that have frequency and expending time less than their recognition of outdoor play. Most of daycare center teachers perceived outdoor play to be as important as indoor play, and the teachers believed outdoor play supports children's physical, cognitive, social, and language development. The results of this study may be used to utilize as a basic data for estimate physical activity for preschool children and developed that exercise program to increase physical activity of daycare center outdoor play.

• 교육시설
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.5-16
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• 2008

In general, It is known that there are important concepts related with organization space of the elementary school in Japan. They are correspondence to various educational method, consideration of children's activity, consideration about use of the local residents, application of the concepts of house design, and introduction of the ecological concept and technology. But there is little report written concretely how to plan and design for above mentioned concepts and it is realty necessary to investigate about these for the future image of elementary school in Korea. For this purpose, we investigated by analyzing the plan, and the design explanation of the 84 excellent public elementary schools awarded by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology from 1988 to 2005 in Japan. As a result, we have found many examples about various spaces, methods and ideas to plan a school that is specialized and fit for a local peculiarity and user(children and local residents). The diversity of educational method and ecological concepts correspond to direction of future's society.