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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.8.4853

Effects of Child-Initiated Cooking Activity on Young Children's Self-Efficacy and Learning Interest  

Kim, Soo-Kyung (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Chung-Nam National University)
Kim, Jeong-Kyoum (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Chung-Nam National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.8, 2014 , pp. 4853-4862 More about this Journal
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of child-initiated cooking activity on young children's self-efficacy and learning interest. To achieve this, the child-initiated cooking activity and teacher-initiated cooking activity were performed on an experimental group and comparative group, respectively. A total of sixty-eight subjects in 2 classes of 34 four and five year old children in private child-care centers in Chungnam from September 9 to December 31, 2013 were evaluated. The results were as follows. First, the general self-efficacy of the comparative group increased slightly, but that of the experimental group increased significantly, which showed a statistically significant difference in the general self-efficacy. In addition, the child-initiated cooking activity had an effect on the improvement of the cognitive domain, social-emotional domain and physical domain by each sub-factor. Second, the general learning interest of the comparative group increased slightly, but that of the experimental group increased significantly, in which there was a statistically significant difference in the general learning interest. In addition, the child-initiated cooking activity had an effect on the improvement of attention, interest, confidence, conscientiousness and activity interest by each sub-factor. In the findings stated above, the child-initiated cooking activity was an education activity that had a positive effect on the young children's self-efficacy and learning interest.
Keywords
Child-initiated Cooking Activity; Teacher-initiated Cooking Activity; Self-efficacy; Learning Interest;
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