유아를 위한 자연건강 프로그램 개발 및 적용

Abstract

The purposes of the paper are firstly, the development of a nature-friendly health program, secondly, the application of it to infants, and lastly, to observe the change of their health and mentality. The nature-friendly health program for young children is developed on the basis of naturopathy. Because naturopathy stresses the preservation and improvement of health condition through the lifestyle adapted to the order of nature, the program is composed of right-eating, right-breathing, right-acting, right-sleeping, and right-keeping mental attitude. The program runs in two classes of A nursery school located in Busan for eight weeks. One consists of young children aged from three years old to four years old; the other consists of five-year-old infants. The result of the program is summarized as follows: firstly, the young children get easily used the nature-friendly health program, the program that stresses the importance of keeping body warm because it believes that keep warming strengthen immunity improves the young children' health, even the ratio of catching cold goes down, and they get a good pose in behavior such as walking, sitting, sleeping, and etc; secondly, the program develops the young children' ability of concentration. Even some infants who can easily distract others and themselves get better while they are in the program. And they can get and keep a restful mind after the practicing the program. The paper shows the necessity of the spreading of the nature-friendly health program to increase infants' health in the field of infant education.