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The Development and Effectiveness of a Biblio-Counseling Program for Elementary School Children (교사, 학부모, 아동의 상담 욕구에 기초한 통합적 집단독서치료 프로그램의 효과)

  • Chae, Hye Jeong
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.299-319
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    • 2004
  • This study designed, implemented, and evaluated a Biblio-Counseling program for elementary school children. Procedures included 20 60-minute sessions by counselor, 18 20-minute sessions in class by teacher, and 5 20-minute sessions at home by parents. The program was administered to 23 third grade elementary school children. Data were analyzed by frequency, mean, and paired t-test, using SPSS program packages. Results showed significant before and after differences in the degree of self-esteem. Besides, the children reported increased positive expression in class and decreased peer neglect and rejection at school. Children, parents and teacher expressed high satisfaction with the program. These results suggest that the multi-faceted approach as designed and implemented in this study is effective in promoting self-esteem, interpersonal growth, and relationship between child and parents.

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Exploring the Applicability of the School Adjustment Test for Children (초등학생용 학교생활적응 검사의 활용가능성)

  • Kim, Yeong-Eun
    • The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.165-181
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    • 2008
  • In this study, a preliminary study has been made to check the availability of examination after selecting one among the criteria to adaptation of school life, in recognition of the necessity for a tool in order to collect multi =dimensional information about children. An examination has been done with the survey target of 291 pupils in the fifth and sixth grade in an elementary school located in Incheon. And the focus group with the teachers in charge of each class was undertaken to check the availability of the examination. As the result of the examination, 37 was the average score of children diagnosed as the category of temporary maladaptation in terms of the score of 4 sub-scales of school adaptation and their total scores, and 28 was the score which corresponds to the assessment of teachers. The results of examinations and the evaluations of teachers were proved to be highly correlated. Lastly discussion is focused on the meaning of these findings and the suggestions for the further studies.

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The Effects of a Solution Focused Group Counseling Program on the Peer Relation and School Life Adaption of Elementary school children (해결중심적 집단상담 프로그램이 초등학교 아동의 교우관계 및 학교생활 적응에 미치는 효과)

  • Hong, Sung-Mi
    • The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.67-90
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of solution focused group counseling program on peer relationship and school life adaption of elementary school children. The subjects in this study were the 4th graders at S Elementary School in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do. 20 students were selected through the preliminary test of peer relationship and school life adaption, that is to say, each 10 students of experimental group and control group. A solution focused group counseling program was provided by researcher to the experimental group in six sessions once or twice a week, 60 minutes each. but control group was not conducted for any program. In verifying of the program effects in this study, KOREAN SPSS/WIN(version 12.0) is used for statistical analysis. The major findings of this study are as follows: First, solution focused group counseling program has a positive effect on all parts of sub-factors of peer relationship except to union life between friends. Second, solution focused group counseling program has a effect on the school life adaption of elementary and its all parts of sub-factors except to school rules. As noted above, it is proved that solution focused group counseling program has a positive effect to improve parts of sub-factors of peer relationship and school life adaption. Accordingly, it is necessary to feel satisfaction and Qualitative improvement in peer relationship and help school life adaptation of elementary school children through solution focused group counseling program.

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A group counsel ing program to improve the learning habits of elementary school children with learning difficulties (초등학생의 학습습관 향상을 위한 집단상담 프로그램 개발과 효과)

  • Kim, Ji-Ha
    • The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.119-137
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a group counseling program to improve the learning habits of the elementary school children who experience difficulties learning, because of their wrong learning habits. To achieve it, the sub-elements of learning habits are set by "learning motive & attitude" and "learning technique" A group counseling program composed of the essential factors suitable for each element are srhseqrently, devised to pursue the improvement of learning habits. The study propositions are set as follows: Can the group counseling program improve the learning habits of elementary school children? 1. Can the group counseling program improve the learning motive and attitude of elementary school children? 2. Can the group counseling program improve the learning technique of elementary school children? The subject of this study is the 4th graders of W elementary school located in Gwangju Metropolitan City. After selecting 12 pupils from low scorers after a learning habits test, Each 6 of those are randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group, respectively. In this way, they are pcrticipate in the group counseling program. The group counseling program is consisted of 10 sessions. The program is implemented for six weeks with a 50 min duration per session. As a measuring tool, a restructured test with only motive variables and technique variables, excluding remaining variables, from the Learning Habits Test by Choi Jong-Ryul (1992) is used for pre and post tests. The results of the study is acquired by integrating the statistics from the test tool. Observation of the counselor and testees' thoughts are as follows: The group counseling program affects the sub-elements of learning habits positively, namely learning motive & attitude and learning technique. The program applied in this study is effective in improving the learning habits of the pupils with lower learning habits. Accordingly, this program can be one of the methods to develop effective learning habits, set efficient strategies and exert abilities maximally for the learners, who did not adequately exert their abilities, due to wrong learning habits, while ineffectively learning without knowing effective learning habits. To improve and maintain the learning habits of the elementary school pupils, overall understanding should be backed in order to precisely analyze and identify the learning habits of the pupils. Besides, an association between schools and homes is also needed along with parents' concerns over their children's learning habits at home.

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A New Paradigm for Korean Elementary School Counseling (초등학교 상담의 나아갈 방향)

  • Park, Sung-Hee
    • 한국초등상담교육학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.01a
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    • pp.17-40
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    • 2004
  • This article tried to show a new paradigm for elementary school counseling in Korea. Counseling in Korean elementary school has focused on the individual child and/or group of the children without considering school circumstances. But school has some special features which have to be counted for the efficiency of child counseling. Take for an example, children have to spend most of their day time with a class teacher for 6 days a week. So the talks and behaviors of the class teacher have strong influence on the children. These factors should be included in the elementary school counseling to help children grow up and develop. : Six main topics discussed in this articles were as follows. 1. Developmental tasks of Korean children have to be searched and organized. 2. The concept of class management has to be combined with the concept of counseling. 3. Establishing the conditions to facilitate subject learning has to be emphasized in the school counseling. 4. Counseling instruments applicable to the children should be developed. 5. The proper knowledge of teacher's way cf talking and behaving in class life should be organized. 6. The resources of school counseling should be identified and interconnected to provide better counseling service to the children.

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Attitudes to Home Economics Education and Role Performance of Home Economics Teacher in Middle School (중학교 가정과 교사의 가정과교육에 대한 견해와 역할수행에 관한 연구)

  • 기순임
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.187-201
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes to home economics education and role performance of home economics teacher in middle school. The target population of the study was middle school home economics teachers. A booklet of questionnaire was sent to home economics teachers in 499 middle school by mail throughout the whole country. 224 data(respondent rate was 45%) was analyzed into frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, and ANOVA using SPSS program. The results were as follows: 1. Most home economics teachers more agreed to the progressive view of home economics education than to the r=traditional one. The majority of home economics teachers had best performed role as task performer and the second as counselor. The role as instructor was worst performed. 2. Regarding to views of home economics education according to personal and professional characteristics, only the traditional views of home economics education was statistically meaningful on teaching experience and types of school. 3. Regarding to degrees of role performance according to personal and professional characteristics of home economics teachers, teaching experience, types of school, plan to study in graduate school were statistically meaningful. 4. The group for traditional views had performed the role as home economics teacher better than the group against the view.

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A Study of Sexual Attitudes and Opinions for 10th Grade Students in Co-Ed (고등학생들의 성문화)

  • Moon, In-Ok
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2000
  • Objectives: The purpose of this research is to identify and understand sexuality in 10th grade co-ed students in Seoul, Korea in order to construct practical curriculum for sex education for youth. Method: One-hour class per week was done to the 3 classes among 6 classes for Spring semester in 1999: small group discussion(for 3 classes) & questionnaires(6 classes) were taken. Results: Despite the increased number of sex education programs, peers apparently remain the major source of information and the counselor of their sexual problems. The rate of correct answer of the sex knowledge is still low, especially on biological aspects of opposite sex. Western culture and women's movements have changed our society. In turn, sexual sterotypes and roles have been changing. Small group discussions were taken after the classes of pregnancy, abortion and unmarried parents. Their opinions on maintaining virginity were collected. The condition of choosing spouse and boy/girl friend is quite different in many aspects.

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The Influence of Self-Encouragement Activities on Elementary Students' Adaptation to School Life (자기격려 활동이 초등학생의 학교생활적응에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Hoi-Jin;Oh, Ik-Soo
    • The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.35-49
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of self-encouragement activities on elementary students' adaptation to school life. Two classes were sampled among 5th grade at Y elementary school in Gwangju Metropolitan city. One class was assigned to experimental group and the other class was assigned to control group. Experimental group had 8 sessions of self-encouragement activities. To prove the effect of self-encouragement activities, data were collected through pre and post test on adaptation to school life of the students, and were analysed via ANCOVA. The results of this study are following; First, the experimental group had improved significantly in school adaptability than the control group. Second, there was showed significant improvement in teacher-student relationship adaptation, peer relationship adaptation, classwork adaptation, school rule adaptation in the experimental group.

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Exploration of the Current Status of the Career Counseling Teacher Training Course and Improvement Plans (진로 진학 상담 교사 양성과정 현황과 개선 방안 탐색)

  • Yoon Ok Han
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.151-160
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest problems and directions for improvement, focusing on the master's course at the Graduate School of Education, among the career guidance counselor training programs. First, in the case of career education counseling major education graduate school fostering system, ① 3 universities in Seoul, 2 in Gyeonggi-do, 1 in Incheon, 1 in Gangwon, 1 in Daegu, 1 in Jeonbuk, 3 in Chungnam, and 1 in Chungbuk, a total of 13 Opened in 20 universities. ② Most schools operate in a dual system. ③ As a major in career counseling, there is a maximum of 26 courses and a minimum of 10 courses for the master's course in the graduate school of education. Second, what are the problems and improvement directions of the career counseling graduate school training system? ① It is necessary to prepare a standardized curriculum. ② It is necessary to operate education to strengthen connection with the local community. ③ There is a need to resolve the level gap between the 13 graduate schools of education and the lack of faculty members at some universities. ④ Career education policy department of the Ministry of Education needs to periodically evaluate 13 education graduate schools. ⑤ The role of the career policy department of the Ministry of Education is to establish a mid- too long-term plan at the national level considering the demand and supply of career guidance counselors nationwide. ⑥ It is desirable to dualize the way to obtain a career guidance counselor license as it is now.

The Relationship among Calling of the University Career Center Counselor, Client Perception of Counselor, and Working Alliance (대학취업센터 상담자의 소명, 내담자의 상담자 지각, 작업동맹 간의 관계)

  • Jeong, Ji-ae;Kang, Hye-young
    • Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2016
  • This study was conducted on the counselors who work in university job centers and visiting students to analyze the relationship among counselors' calling, visitors' perception of counselors and work alliance perceived by the visitors and counselors. The data were collected from 110 counselors who are in charge of career counseling in university job centers and 208 visitors to the center, on which multiple regression analysis was performed. The results of this study are as follows. First, counselors' calling had positive effect on work alliance perceived by counselors (${\beta}=.48$, p < .01) with explanatory power of 25%. Counselors' calling had positive effect on work alliance perceived by visitors (${\beta}=.21$, p < .01) with explanatory power of 7%. Second, counselors' calling had positive effect on visitors' perception of counselors (${\beta}=.21$, p < .01) with explanatory power of 8%. Through these results, this study found out that counselors with high level of calling tend to form great work alliance while visitors tend to perceive that counselors with high level of calling are professional, trustworthy and likable.