The Beauty of Character Education on Preschool Children's Parent-child Relationship

Abstract

Early childhood education in Taiwan puts high value in cultivating young children's character education, especially for preschool curriculum guideline proposes that character education should starts as earlier as possible. Research focus on the importance of character education from early childhood education perspective; however, little study investigated the key factors of character education integrated into parent-child relationship, especially in multi-culture family. This study aims to explore the beauty of character education and its impact on young children's parent-child relationship. The purposive sampling of the research includes the young children's parents in the ten preschools adopting the program of character education integrated into family daily life for more than one year in the Southern Taiwan cities. Parents, early childhood education experts and teachers are interviewed and the questionnaire survey is further preceded. The study concludes that in terms of the influencing factors of character education integrated into parent-child relationship, the experts pay attention to Children's Character Cultivation within the evaluation dimensions in the second hierarchy, with the weight 0.426 about 42.6% of the overall weight. The following emphases are Parent-Child Relationship and then Parents Demography. From the investigation, Children's Character Cultivation is regarded as the most stressed dimension for character education integrated into preschool children's parent-child relationship in Taiwan. And with the conclusion that character education can deepen the bond between parents and children, as well as significant influence the preschool Children's Character Cultivation, and also, the preschool parents’ support and scaffolding in children's storytelling, play, music and arts serve as significant factors in preschool children's parent-child relationship.