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KMID : 0858820070240010093
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2007 Volume.24 No. 1 p.93 ~ p.108
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Teachers` Perceived Dimensions on Elementary School Health Education Curriculum: An Experimental Trial Based on Concept Mapping Approach
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Park Kyoung-Ok
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Abstract
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Background: School is a primary health education setting for children and the continuous support should be provided to renew school health education curriculum correspondent to socio-cultural changes in Korean society.
Objectives: This study was conducted to identify the principals’ and teachers’ needs of health education topics for their students and to analyze their conceptual map for health education curriculum in Korean elementary school.
Methods: The sample size of the first survey was 179 and that of the second survey was 691 of elementary school principals and teachers from stratified sampling over Korea. The self-administered mailing survey was conducted to o identify the factor structure of the health education topics and to analyze the conceptual properties with exploratory factor analysis and multidimensional scaling analysis in SPSS 12.0. Results: A total of 21 health education topics were collected from the first survey and 31 topics were, comprehensively, generated for the second survey. The five factors were determined: ’life health promotion behavior,’ ’drug control and mental health,’ ’bulling and aggression prevention,’ ’safety perception and injury prevention,’ and ’sex education and sexual harassment.’ The educational need scores were the highest in ’safety perception and injury prevention.’ The two-dimensional cooperates were generated for the 31 health education topics and the two dimensional properties which divided the conceptual space were ’health-safety’ for one and ’public/environmental-individual/personal’ for the other.
Conclusions: Health education curriculum and textbook should be developed considering teachers’ needs and conditions for health education in school fields. The field-based health education programs or textbook would make more possible problem-solving health education for children in real school fields.
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KEYWORD
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Health Education, Elementary School, Curriculum, Multidimensional Scaling, Concept Mapping, Children
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