통합교육 실천을 위한 발달장애인 부모의 평생교육참여 저해 요인 분석

Abstract

This study is to find out what the barriers to participating in lifelong education perceived by the parents of the children with developmental disabilities, to examine what kind of differences can be perceived by the social demographic characteristics of the parents and their children, and to investigate the effect of the barriers to participating in lifelong education for parents of the persons with developmental disabilities on the intention of participating in lifelong education in the future. For this study, the results of the survey targeting 198 parents who have never experienced the lifelong education programs among the parents of the children with developmental disabilities have been analyzed and the principal results of the study are as follows. Firstly, the institutional barriers and the informational ones among the barriers to participating in lifelong education are found to be perceived highest. Secondly, the results of examining the difference among the barriers to participating in lifelong education depending on the social demographic characteristics of the parents and their children show that the situational barriers vary according to the gender of parent, the total income of the family, the type of the child's disability, and the expectancy of occupation and the institutional barriers to the educational background of parent and the expectancy of occupation of the child, and the dispositional ones to the type of the child's disability. Thirdly, the results of analyzing the effect of the barriers to participating in lifelong education for parents of the persons with developmental disabilities on the intention of participating in lifelong education in the future show that the higher the dispositional barriers are, the lower intention of participating in lifelong education in the future are. Based on the above-mentioned results of the study, some discussions have been made on how to enhance the rate of participating in the lifelong education for parents of the persons with developmental disabilities and to improve their quality of life.