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The Multicultural Competency of Childcare Teachers for the Fusion Age Impact on Organizational Effectiveness (융합시대를 위한 보육교사의 다문화역량이 조직효과성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Young-Ok;Shin, Seon-Mee
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.181-188
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of multicultural competence on the organizational effectiveness of daycare teachers and to provide basic data to improve organizational effectiveness of daycare facilities. To achieve this goal, 258 childcare teachers attending C university were sampled for convenience and statistical processing was performed using PASW. First, there was a positive correlation between organizational productivity, organizational adaptability, and job satisfaction in the relationship between multicultural knowledge and organizational productivity, organizational adaptability, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. second. The relationship between multicultural awareness and organizational productivity, organizational adaptability, and organizational commitment were all statistically correlated. Third, multicultural knowledge and multicultural awareness have positive effects on organizational commitment, organizational adaptability, and organizational productivity. Fourth, multicultural knowledge has a positive effect on job satisfaction. Therefore, in order to improve organizational effectiveness of day care facilities in the era of convergence, education programs related to multicultural knowledge and multicultural awareness are needed for daycare teachers.

Awareness and educational needs towards the multicultural family in dental hygienists in public health center (보건소 치과위생사의 다문화에 대한 인식도 및 교육 요구)

  • Jang, Sun-Hee;Lee, Gwang-Hee
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.189-196
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    • 2014
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness of dental hygienists in public health center towards multicultural family and educational needs to provide information on community oral health programs. Methods : The subjects were 74 recruited from 126 dental hygienists in 14 public dental clinics in Jeonbuk Province. A self-reported questionnaire was filled out by 64 dental hygienists in charge of dental health care. Data were anlatzed by the statistical package SPSS WIN 12.0. Results : The characteristics of the subjects had no impact on their positive multicultural awareness, and there existed differences by age, rank and period of services in the channel of information acquisition. They got 3.5 out of five in multicultural awareness showing a positive way. The types of medical services for multicultural family revealed that they provided oral health education, dental checkup services and simple treatment covered by health insurance. Health insurance accounted for 15.4 percent of dental services. The obstacles to dental services in multicultural family were communication problems, poor concern for oral health and cultural gaps. They got 3.86 out of five points in educational needs for multicultural family who need the dental education most. The multicultural family showed the higher score in every question. Conclusions : Public health center dental clinics should help dental hygienists to acquire information on multicultural family. Public health center should provide the easy access way of dental health checkup for the multicultural family.

Satisfaction Survey Through Multicultural Literacy Program Development and Education for Busan Youth (부산 청년을 대상으로 다문화리터러시 프로그램 개발 및 교육을 통한 만족도 조사)

  • Kang, Hyun-Joo;Jung, Se Ri;Kim, Chee-Yong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.1567-1579
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    • 2021
  • This study describes a multicultural literacy program that can nurture multicultural people who can live in a multicultural society. A total of 10 20-hour programs were conducted for 22 youths in Busan. Through this, the current perception and acceptance of multiculturalism among young people in Busan was investigated, and a curriculum suitable for multicultural awareness, multicultural acceptance, and multicultural competency enhancement was constructed. In accordance with the goal of strengthening the multicultural competency required for multicultural activists through education, learners can exchange opinions through the activity sheet, so that learners can know the difference between themselves and others. Students could learn about each other's culture and values through cultural exchange with others, and through teachers with diverse cultures, they could learn various perspectives and cultures about culture and values. Through the results of the multicultural literacy program, I would like to suggest three methods of multicultural literacy education to strengthen multicultural competence in a multicultural society. Therefore, efforts should be made to develop various multicultural education courses to strengthen the multicultural capabilities of Koreans.

A Study on the Organization Effectiveness of Multi-cultural Acceptability of Childcare Teachers' for Convergence Period: The Mediation Effect of Multicultural Capabilities (융합시대를 위한 보육교사의 다문화수용성이 조직효과성에 미치는 연구: 다문화역량의 매개효과)

  • Kim, Young-Ok;Shin, Seon-Mee
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.130-138
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of multicultural competence on the organizational effectiveness of multicultural competence through the questionnaire survey of 327 kindergarten teachers attending C university in Seoul, Statistics were made using IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0. The results of this study are as follows: First, the relationship between multicultural differentiation and multicultural knowledge, national identity, multicultural differentiation, relationship between multicultural awareness and willingness of multiculturalism, relationship between multicultural knowledge and organizational adaptability, relationship between multicultural awareness and organizational adaptability, There was a positive relationship between the relationship between organizational productivity, the relationship between multicultural differentiation and organizational productivity, and the relationship with global citizenship behavior. Second. Only multicultural awareness has an effect on organizational adaptability and organizational productivity. Therefore, in order to improve the organizational effectiveness of the nursery in the era of convergence, it is necessary for the nursery teachers to have an education program related to multicultural awareness in connection with organizational adaptability and organizational productivity, which are subordinate factors of organizational effectiveness.

The Influences of Closeness with Parents and Awareness of Internet Policies on Internet Addiction among Adolescents in Multicultural Families in South Korea (다문화가정 청소년의 부모 친밀도와 인터넷 정책 인지도가 인터넷 중독에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, RaeHyuck;Chang, Hae Lim
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.13-25
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    • 2018
  • Using data from the 2014 Survey on Internet Addiction performed by the National Information Society Agency, this study aimed to examine the influences of closeness with parents and awareness of Internet policies on Internet Addiction among adolescents in multicultural families in South Korea. Descriptive analyses showed that multicultural adolescents had on average 2.09 points on the whole scale of 15 items, but had on average 2.20 points on the sub-scale of withdrawal symptoms and on average 2.18 points on the sub-scale of tolerance symptoms. Multiple regression analyses revealed that multicultural adolescents' closeness with parents was significantly associated with lower levels of Internet addiction. Also, multicultural adolescents' awareness of Internet policies was also significantly associated with lower levels of Internet addiction. Based on the findings, this study suggested the necessity of providing parent education programs and enhancing awareness of Internet policies to reduce Internet addiction among adolescents in multicultural families.

College Students' Understanding of a Multicultural Curriculum (다문화 교육과정에 관한 대학생 인식)

  • Yun, Tae-Young;Lee, Eun-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.273-284
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the understanding of a multicultural education curriculum(educational goals, contents, methodology, subjects, problems, and revitalization) by college students and its process, to provide base materials to be used in revitalizing an efficient multicultural education. The subjects were 750 college students located in Jeonbuk province. In this statistical analysis, SPSS 12.0 program was used to conduct frequency analysis, credibility analysis, $X^2$ test, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Duncan' multiple comparison. For the educational goals of multicultural education, most people responded it was "to positively experience cultural diversity and commonality." As for methodology, the paper found that there were two elements, namely, consolidation form and specific form; there were no differences between responses given by different genders, but differences were observed among different grade levels and majors. Looking at the content of multicultural education, emphasis was given to the equality of different cultures. Multicultural education was taught most frequently in Home Economics Education. In conclusion, by focusing on university students, the paper looked at the awareness of multicultural the necessity of multicultural education, and the awareness of the multicultural education process. Above all, in terms of home economics education, there must be more systematic studies on school field education and related educational programs in order to revitalize multicultural education.

Effects of Multicultural Awareness and Cultural Empathy on Cultural Competency in Nursing Students (간호대학생의 다문화 인식과 문화적 공감이 문화적 역량에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Ha
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.8
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    • pp.241-247
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    • 2020
  • This study was a descriptive research that attempted to provide the basis for improving cultural competence by identifying the effect of multicultural awareness and cultural empathy on the cultural competence of nursing students. The subjects were nursing students from grades 1 to 4 who were enrolled in two nursing colleges in Gwangju and Chonnam. The data were collected from September to December 2018. The 201 data collected were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis with SPSS 25.0 for windows. Multicultural awareness(r=.451, p<.01) and cultural empathy(r=.582, p<.01) had high positive correlations with cultural competence. The factors that affected the cultural competence were cultural empathy(β=.422, p<.001) and multicultural awareness(β=.222, p<.001) order. The explanatory power of these factors was 40.5%. These findings suggest that in order to promote the cultural competence of nursing students, strategies to promote multicultural awareness and cultural empathy should be developed, and these strategies should focus more on cultural empathy than on multicultural awareness.

A Study on the Relation between Human Rights Awareness, Empathy, and Multicultural Acceptability among Nursing Students (간호대학생의 인권의식, 공감능력 및 다문화수용성과의 관계)

  • Myeong-Ja Seo;Yun-Jeong Oh;Eun-Mi Lee
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.123-129
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    • 2023
  • This study was attempted to identify and correlate the degree of human rights awareness, empathy, and multicultural acceptance of nursing students. The data of this study were collected from 175 nursing students at a university in G City from October 11, 2022 to November 5, 2022. The collected data were analyzed using t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficient using the SPSS/WIN 22.0 Program. The results of this study are as follows. The human rights consciousness of nursing students differed significantly depending on the presence or absence of nursing ethics education and the presence or absence of foreign or migrant friends. As a result of this study, human rights awareness had a significant correlation with empathy, but there was no significant correlation between human rights awareness and multicultural acceptance, and empathy and multicultural acceptance. The results of this study will contribute to nursing education to contribute to strengthening the competence of nursing students as professionals.

Variables Affecting the Intercultural Communication Skills of Nursing Students (간호대학생의 문화 간 의사소통 능력에 미치는 영향변인)

  • Lee, Eun-Mi;Kim, Sun-Hee
    • Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.78-87
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This study attempted to determine multicultural awareness, empathy and intercultural skill communication of nursing students and to identify the variables that influence intercultural communication skills. Methods: The subjects were 238 nursing students. The research subjects were the students in the third and fourth grade of the Department of Nursing of five four-year universities located in D city, A city and Y city in Gyeongbuk region. Data were collected from March 11 to 22, 2013 by using self-report questionnaires. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression with the SPSS/WIN. Ver. 18.0 programs. Results: The affecting variables of intercultural communication skill were multicultural awareness (${\beta}=.47$), empathy (${\beta}=.38$), other foreign languages (${\beta}=.16$) and multicultural interests (${\beta}=.09$). These variables accounted for 67.0% of the affecting intercultural communication skill. Conclusion: Based on these findings, more systematic multicultural education that can be used for multicultural subjects is needed to be conducted at nursing schools. In particular, programs considering the subjects who do not have neither foreign friends around them nor experience of staying abroad need to be developed.

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Improvement of Multicultural Awareness and Story Building by Community Radio (공동체 라디오를 통한 다문화 인식개선과 스토리설계 방안)

  • Hong, Sook-Yeong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.98-107
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    • 2015
  • This study analyzed the story of 'Good Morning, Ladies of the World', a multicultural program of a community radio Gwanak FM. Furthermore, the study performed an in-depth interview on Korean producing staffs and migrant casts in order to figure out the contents for the improvement of awareness and for the design of multicultural media story telling. As a result, the migrant women presented overall public discourses on their own culture, climate and customs as a sense of representative. While Korean staffs wanted to understand and communicate with their culture and to share private experiences, migrant women wished understanding and respect to their culture and removal of discrimination or prejudice. Accordingly, the storytelling design for the improvement of multicultural awareness must be a private discourse on the basis of a public discourse, and it turned out that the user of a mediator who experienced and knew culture of Korea and the migrant is necessary. And, this study recommended the need of education of migrant women and media support for a proper story planning, structuring and delivery.