Schools In South Korea Research Articles

Schools in South Korea: Where have all the children gone?

Schools in South Korea: Where have all the children gone?

Defending Victims of Bullying in Early Adolescence: A Multilevel Analysis.

Adolescents' defending behaviors in school bullying situations is likely determined by individual characteristics, social status variables, and classroom/school contextual factors operating simultaneously in the peer ecology. However, there is little research on defending behavior that utilizes this multilevel approach. This study investigated how students' willingness to defend victims of bullying was affected by feelings of empathy, perceived popularity, and classroom-level perceived prosocial norms. Participants were 1373 adolescents (40% girls, Mage: 14 yrs) from 54 classrooms in six middle schools in South Korea. These youth reported on their feelings of empathy and how prosocial they perceived their classmates to be. Peer-ratings and peer nominations were used to estimate defending behaviors and which students were perceived as popular. Multilevel analyses showed that participants were more likely to defend victims when they had greater empathy and perceived popularity and when classroom-level prosocial norms were higher. The findings have implications for interventions to reduce school bullying and for studying defending behavior in multiple cultural contexts.

濟州地區中韓漢語敎師 “合作敎學” 探討

With the rapid growth in China economy and international exchanges, Chinese become much more important. More and more foreigners began to learn Chinese one after another primary and middle schools in South korea started to offer Chinese courses as well. China and South Korea adopted a Cooperative teaching model that teachers from two countries collaborate with each other “one on one” in teaching process. Through harmonious cooperation, Cooperation teaching provides learners with more diverse and interesting Chinese learning environment, arouse the enthusiasm of students learning Chinese, form the benign interaction between teachers and students.BR This ariticle through to the incheon area of Chinese teachers to discuss cooperation teaching in class to face the problem, and combining the questionnaire and the specific teaching cases of cooperative teaching concrete implementation and discussed. Teaching practice the author hopes to use a gleam of favorable conditions can solve or improve for Chinese cooperation teaching method. And how better to play a role of China Chinese teachers, puts forward some operation methods and techniques, and finally realizes the “teach” and “learning,”

Decolonizing educational/curriculum studies in East Asia: problematizing shadow education in South Korea

ABSTRACTThis essay review critically engages Young Chun Kim's book, Shadow Education and the Curriculum and Culture of Schooling in South Korea, by responding to two central questions at its heart: What does decolonization of educational research mean and what does it look like? In what way can cultural studies of countries with histories of colonized educational systems challenge the inertia to recapitulate colonized historical consciousness? Kim provides theoretical and empirical foundations for generating intellectual space that reveals the dialectical relationship between the dominant modes of discourse in educational research and aspirations of the colonized to envision their own educational culture and history.

A Child’s Family Relationship and Emotional Well-Being through Self-Regulated Learning in South Korea

This paper focuses on the relationship between a child’s family relationship, emotional well-being, and self-regulated learning in Korea. The sample of this study consisted of 527 elementary school students who were selected from three different schools in South Korea. The data were collected using the family relationship scale, the self-regulated learning scale, and the emotional well-being scale. The results showed that the structural equation modeling analysis was a good model fit to indices. Family relationship such as cohesion or conflict had a direct and indirect effect on a student’s emotional well-being. Also, family cohesion and family conflict indirectly influenced a child’s emotional well-being through self-regulated learning. It was also evident that there were significant grade differences in the students' emotional well-being where 5th graders had higher positive emotions than 6th graders and 6th graders had higher family conflict than 5th graders. To sum up the findings, there was clear evidence that a positive family relationship predicted a student’s emotional well-being directly and anticipated a child’s emotional well-being indirectly through self-regulated learning.

Flipped classroom as an alternative future class model?: implications of South Korea’s social experiment

This study explores the implications of the flipped classroom experiment in South Korea as a counter-proposal for the school innovation project based on the Korean educational context. Using Dongpyung middle school in South Korea for this case study, this paper focuses on how and why the flipped classroom impacts Korea’s education culture. The results of the experiment provide significant insights, such as promoting more active classroom learning and the improvement of student academic achievement. In particular, the narratives of the students and teachers in the flipped classroom experiment show the following positive impacts on learning and teaching: (1) Transformation into a more equal and democratic classroom, (2) restoration of enjoyment in learning and teaching, (3) improvement of self-confidence, and (4) inspiration for the learning and teaching community. Based on these results, this paper discusses possible implications of the flipped classroom as an alternative future class model in Korean society.

Survey on the undergraduate curriculum in clinical pharmacology and interns' prescribing ability in South Korea.

Appropriate prescription writing is one of the critical medical processes affecting the quality of public health care. However, this is a complex task for newly qualified intern doctors because of its complex characteristics requiring sufficient knowledge of medications and principles of clinical pharmacology, skills of diagnosis and communication, and critical judgment. This study aims to gather data on the current status of undergraduate prescribing education in South Korea. Two surveys were administered in this study: survey A to 26 medical schools in South Korea to gather information on the status of undergraduate education in clinical pharmacology; and survey B to 244 intern doctors in large hospitals to gather their opinions regarding prescribing education and ability. In survey A, half of the responding institutions provided prescribing education via various formats of classes over two curriculums including lecture, applied practice, group discussions, computer-utilized training, and workshops. In survey B, we found that intern doctors have the least confidence when prescribing drugs for special patient populations, especially pregnant women. These intern doctors believed that a case-based practical training or group discussion class would be an effective approach to supplement their prescribing education concurrently or after the clerkship in medical schools or right before starting intern training with a core drug list. The results of the present study may help instructors in charge of prescribing education when communicating and cooperating with each other to improve undergraduate prescribing education and the quality of national medical care.

MODERATING EFFECT OF STRESS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY IMAGE AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOR \r\nAMONG SCHOOL - AGE CHILDREN IN SOUTH KOREA\r\n

Ponte Academic JournalJan 2018, Volume 74, Issue 1 MODERATING EFFECT OF STRESS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY IMAGE AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOR \r\nAMONG SCHOOL - AGE CHILDREN IN SOUTH KOREA\r\nAuthor(s): Insook LeeJ. Ponte - Jan 2018 - Volume 74 - Issue 1 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2018.1.15 Abstract:Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the body images, appearance management behavior, and stress of senior elementary school students, and examine whether stress has a moderating effect on the relationship between students’ body image and physical appearance management behavior. \\r\\nMethods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used. Data were collected from November to December 2016 in elementary schools in South Korea, and 130 senior students participated. \\r\\nResults: Participants’ mean body image scores were 12.66 out of 20, while their physical appearance management behavior and stress scores were 70.24 and 60.78, respectively. Physical appearance management behavior was negatively correlated with body image (r = -.228, p = .010) and happiness (r = -.177, p = .047), and was positively correlated with stress (r = .317, p < .001) and having a favorite entertainer (r = .379, p < .001). The moderating effect of stress on the relationship between the appearance management behavior and body image was significant (β = .198, p = .015). Therefore, the stress level shows the effect of moderating the influence of the body image on the physical appearance management behavior. \\r\\nConclusion: Among individuals with high stress, physical appearance management behavior was high even when students’ body image was highly positive. These results can be used as basic data for developing educational programs required to help early adolescent students develop and maintain their desirable body images, and thus grow into psychosocially healthy and confident adolescents and adults.\\r\\n Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password

Effects of Self-Efficacy Information and Self-Hand Massage on Psychosocial Factors and Smoking Cessation in South Korean Adolescents

ABSTRACTThis study aimed to develop a smoking-cessation program for adolescents combining self-efficacy enhancement and stress reduction using self-hand massage. Participants were recruited from smokers enrolled in two high schools in South Korea. The experimental group (N = 22) smoking-cessation program combined self-efficacy information sources and self-hand massage; the comparison group (N = 20) program provided general information. The experimental group significantly improved compared to the control group in self-efficacy, stress, daily smoking, and urinary cotinine immediately following and four weeks after the intervention. The study showed that intervention strategies to improve self-efficacy and reduce stress could improve smoking cessation.

Shadow education and the curriculum and culture of schooling in South Korea

Shadow education and the curriculum and culture of schooling in South Korea

Shining light into dark shadows of violence and learned helplessness: peace education in South Korean schools

The paper illustrates how a culture of violence is perpetuated and reproduced in South Korea through schooling and argues that peace education could help transform a culture of violence to a culture of peace. Critical ethnographic methods and a framework of peace education were applied to a sample of secondary schools in South Korea to argue that a disturbing culture of violence and learned helplessness were present; this comprises themes of direct and indirect violence through iljin (a group of students who are considered key perpetrators of school violence); a colonized false ideology and resistance to social justice. More positively, findings are also used to generate possibilities for pedagogical change based on peace education – an approach that proves useful both as an analytical frame for examining peace-violence relations in education and society and as an essential pedagogy for progressing towards peace in South Korean schools.

Friendship Dynamics of Adolescent Aggression, Prosocial Behavior, and Social Status: The Moderating Role of Gender.

Interactions with friends are a salient part of adolescents' experience at school. Adolescents tend to form friendships with similar peers and, in turn, their friends influence adolescents' behaviors and beliefs. The current study investigated early adolescents' selection of friends and friends' influence with regard to physical aggression, prosocial behavior, and popularity and social preference (i.e., likeability) among fifth and sixth graders (N = 736, 52% girls at wave1, N = 677, 52% girls at wave 2) in elementary schools in South Korea. The moderating role of gender on early adolescents' friend selection and influence was also examined. With longitudinal social network analysis (RSiena), we found that youth tended to select friends with similar levels of physical aggression and popularity, and their friends influenced their own physical aggression and popularity over time. The higher youth were in social preference, the less likely they chose physically aggressive peers as friends. Boys were more likely to select highly popular peers as friends compared to girls, and influence effects for physical aggression and popularity were stronger for boys compared to girls. The results underscore the importance of gender in friendship dynamics among Asian early adolescents.

전국 초등학교 통합교육 환경에서 인성교육과 봉사학습 실행 실태

The purpose of this study was to identify the current status of character education and service-learning in inclusive elementary schools in South Korea and to suggest better ways to implement the programs for all students with and without disabilities through a national survey with 34 items developed by the researchers. A total of 205 elementary schools with special classes were selected by a stratified sampling method based on the number of students in elementary schools across the nation. Responses to the survey from 365 teachers of 183 schools were analyzed for this study. Most schools implemented character education and service-learning programs, and students with disabilities also participated in those programs. Character education programs such as school violence prevention and proper language usage education, and service-learning programs such as helping hands and campaign activities were most frequently conducted. However, the reflective activities and celebrations in service-learning programs were less rigorously implemented and the support for students with disabilities was limited. Thus, further study of curriculum-related various content and systematically organized structures for character education and service-learning programs is suggested. Also various support for students with disabilities should be provided to enhance their participation in diverse types of character education and service-learning, and to improve the quality of inclusive education for all.

Effects of pre-education combined with a simulation for caring for children with croup on senior nursing students.

Educational outcomes, such as knowledge, confidence in performance, ability in nursing practice, and satisfaction with learning methods in caring for children with croup, were compared between groups of students that received education through simulation combined with pre-education, simulation only, and pre-education only. In this quasi-experimental design, the educational intervention for the experimental group was the pre-education modality. Data from a convenience sample of 127 senior nursing students were drawn from three nursing schools in South Korea. There were significant differences in the mean scores of knowledge, confidence in performance, satisfaction with the learning method, and ability in nursing practice between the three groups. Pre-education with simulation significantly enhanced students' knowledge, confidence in performance, ability in nursing practice, and satisfaction with learning methods compared with pre-education or simulation alone. Simulation strategies should focus more on enhancing nursing students' learning outcomes.

Determinants of adolescents’ career development competencies in junior secondary schools of South Korea

More attention is needed on the career development of adolescents, specifically disadvantaged students deemed at risk of school failure. We investigated the determinants on career development competencies of 9th graders in secondary school in South Korea. The data in this study included 394 principals, 6635 students, and the students’ parents. Our research confirmed that students with low academic achievement, less parental support, and low family income are relatively disadvantaged in their school-based career development. We suggest that schools provide more preferential attention and care, as well as special career interventions for these disadvantaged students.

Institutional factors affecting participation in national faculty development programs: a nation-wide investigation of medical schools

BackgroundMedical schools have used faculty development programs as an essential means to improve the instruction of faculty members. Thus far, however, participating in such programs has been largely voluntary for individuals even though a certain degree of participation is required to achieve practical effectiveness. In addition, the learning behaviors of faculty members are known to be influenced by organizational contexts such as a hidden curriculum. Therefore, this study explored the organizational characteristics of medical schools affecting attendance at faculty development programs.MethodsForty medical schools in South Korea were included in this study. In total, 1,667 faculty members attended the faculty development programs at the National Teacher Training Center for Health Personnel between 2007 and 2015. For independent variables, information on the basic characteristics and the educational states was collected from all the medical schools. Themes were identified from their educational goals and objectives by inductive content analysis.ResultsThe number of nine-year cumulative attendees from medical schools ranged from 8 to 104. The basic characteristics of the medical schools had little influence on faculty development program attendance, while several themes in the educational goals and objectives, including “cooperation”, “serving various societies”, and “dealing with a changing future” showed a significant difference in participation. The number of full-time faculty showed a significant positive correlation when it was smaller than the median, and the proportion of alumni faculty showed a significant negative correlation when it was higher than 50%.ConclusionsThis study adds to existing knowledge on factors affecting attendance at faculty development programs by identifying related institutional factors that influence attendance. While the variations depending on the basic characteristics were minimal, the organizational environment surrounding medical education significantly contributed to attendance. Addressing institutional as well as individual factors could contribute to improving participation by faculty members in faculty development programs.

Undergraduate nursing student mentors' experiences of peer mentoring in Korea: A qualitative analysis

BackgroundAlthough mentoring involves the achievement of a mutual relationship between mentors and mentees, most studies have focused on the effects of mentoring on the mentees rather than that on the mentors, which necessitates the need to identify mentors' experiences to provide original resources for mentoring. ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to explore the mentoring experience of nursing students who participated as mentors in a mentoring learning program, to offer evidence-based resources for nursing educators to develop mentoring programs and to use mentorship as an educational method. DesignA qualitative content analysis of transcribed focus groups was conducted to describe and explore the undergraduate nursing students' mentoring experiences. SettingThis study was conducted in two nursing schools in South Korea. ParticipantsFifteen student mentors from the peer mentoring program participated in the present study. They were aged between 21 and 24years, and 87% of the participants were female. MethodsThe experiences of the mentors were explored through focus groups, and the collected data were analyzed by content analysis. ResultsThe mentors' experiences could be summarized by the core theme, “Self-growth as a leader,” consisting of the following themes: taking pride, guiding mentees, coping with conflicts, and building leadership. ConclusionThe themes and codes derived from mentors' experiences would provide evidence-based guidelines and resources for nursing educators and professionals in related disciplines regarding successful peer mentoring, which could facilitate self-growth and foster the development of leadership skills in undergraduate students.

INFLUENCES OF HEALTH INFORMATION ORIENTATION AND EHEALTH LITERACY ON OREAN ADOLESCENTS’ HEALTH PROMOTION BEHAVIORS

Ponte Academic JournalDec 2017, Volume 73, Issue 12 INFLUENCES OF HEALTH INFORMATION ORIENTATION AND EHEALTH LITERACY ON OREAN ADOLESCENTS’ HEALTH PROMOTION BEHAVIORSAuthor(s): Kyoung Ja Kim ,Hyun Ji KimJ. Ponte - Dec 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 12 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.12.11 Abstract:BACKGROUND With the expansion of Internet use, the Internet usage rate of teenagers is very high�99.9% in South Korea�and more than half of them are searching for health-related information online. Adequate eHealth Literacy (eHL) and Health Information Orientation (HIO) are becoming more and more important. Thus, this study aimed to describe the influences of eHL and HIO on adolescents� health promotion behaviors.\r\nMETHODS A cross-sectional survey design was used. A structured questionnaire was administered to 161 adolescents aged 16 to 18 years in 3 high schools in South Korea, who participated in this study based on informed written consent.\r\nRESULTS The health promotion behaviors of adolescents were found to be significantly correlated with HIO and eHL. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that HIO, eHL, and subjective health status were predictors of health promotion behaviors of adolescents, after adjusting for general characteristics.\r\nCONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that HIO and eHL can be important factors in promoting adolescents� health behaviors. With these findings we can suggest proper education for adolescents should include enhancement of eHL and HIO. Therefore, educational programs should be developed to increase adolescents� interest in their own health and their actual eHL. Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password

Effects of South Korean High School Students’ Motivation to Learn Science and Technology on Their Concern Related to Engineering

This study investigated the gender difference among South Korean high school students in science learning motivation, technology learning motivation, and concern related engineering, as well as the correlation between these factors. It also verified effects of the sub-factors of science learning motivation and technology learning motivation on concern related to engineering. For this study, 745 students in grade 11th at six high schools in South Korea were involved as subjects in a survey conducted using instruments developed by Glynn et al. and Hall et al. In the results, a gender difference was observed in some sub-factors related to science learning motivation and technology learning motivation, and a positive correlation was found between most of the sub-factors of science learning motivation and technology learning motivation and concern related to engineering. Moreover, intrinsic motivation and personal relevance in technology were major factors that influenced students’ concern related to engineering. Based on the findings, this study demonstrates the educational implications of including engineering in high school technology curriculums.

Cognition of the Teachers for Continuity in English Curriculum between Elementary and Secondary School in South Korea

Cognition of the Teachers for Continuity in English Curriculum between Elementary and Secondary School in South Korea