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http://dx.doi.org/10.17703/JCCT.2017.3.4.93

Mothers' Stories about Their Experiences on the Child's Character Education in Multicultural familyoman  

Cho, Mi Young (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Hanzhong University)
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The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology / v.3, no.4, 2017 , pp. 93-100 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine what was the child's character education recognized by mothers of multicultural families and what was the actual conditions and needs of the child's character education at home through the in-depth interviews, and to suggest the efficient direction of the child's character education for mothers of multicultural families. The research participants were 6 mothers with children in multicultural families who lived in E city of Gangwon-do. The results of this study were as follows. First, as for the child's character education recognized by mothers of multicultural families, it was said to doing character education at home such as becoming a good person, becoming a child to listen to the parent's words and to reconcile with family, and becoming a child who was in harmony with friends. Second, as for the actual conditions of child's character education, they often used a control language such as "Do not, no", when children did not behave properly. In particular, there were some cases of using threatening words such as "taking you to the police station". Third, they hoped that various interests and support would be provided, such as not listening to "You are ill-behaved because you are in a multicultural family," receiving husband's educational support, receiving grandparents' support, and interests from the educational institution, etc.
Keywords
multicultural family; mother of multicultural family; character education; recognition; in-depth interview;
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