초등학생의 실과 도구에 대한 안전인식과실천에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out tools, which possibly bring about safety accidents, of those used in the subject of practical arts regarding the actual conditions of safety education in the current regular curriculum of elementary school, then to identify the degree of implementing safety awareness and the level of safety awareness of the tools, and based on this, finally to present a direction of safety education for a variety of tools used in the subject of practical arts. To achieve this purpose, reviews were done on theories and documents related to school safety. A questionnaire was made to measure the degree of implementing and the level of safety awareness of tools. A total of 480 questionnaire sheets were distributed to fifth and sixth graders of an elementary school in Daejeon Metropolitan City, an elementary school in a city region and an elementary school in an eup/myeon region, Chungcheongnam-do. Of the distributed sheets, 438 valid sheets in total were analyzed after they were collected from 149 students in the eup/myeon region, 151 students in the city region and 138 students in the metropolitan city. As statistic methods, frequency, percentage, t-test and F-test were applied to the analysis. Significance level was set up as 5%. The results from this study were summed up as follows: (1) As a result of analyzing the relation of sex with the implementation of safety awareness, there was no significant difference. The analysis on the relation of sex with the level of safety awareness showed a significant difference at 5% level. (2) As a result of analyzing the relation of grade with the implementation of safety awareness, there was a significant difference at 1% level. After the relation of grade with the level of safety awareness was analyzed, no significant difference was found. (3) The analysis on the relation of region with the implementation of safety awareness and with the level of safety awareness showed a significant difference at 1% level. (4) The analysis on the relation of whether to be damaged by tools with the implementation of safety awareness and with the level of safety awareness suggested a significant difference at 1% level. (5) As a result of analyzing the relation of whether to deliver safety education with the implementation of safety awareness, there was a significant difference at 1% level. The analysis on the relation of whether to deliver safety education with the level of safety awareness showed no significant difference. Based on the above results, significant was the relation of the grades of elementary school students with the implementation of safety awareness. Thus, a consideration should be made on safety education for the use of tools appropriate to each grade. Schools need to re-organize the curriculum to make it possible for students, from lower grades, to experience tools directly and indirectly through the classes of discretional activity and special activity. Families must teach students to establish a habit of using tools properly. The relation of region with the implementation and the level of safety awareness was also significant. Therefore, it is necessary to deliver safety education for a proper use of tools in consideration of the region and school environment. In addition, the more damage from tools was experienced, the more efforts should be made to maintain safety in using tools. The more there are experiences of safety education regarding using tools, the better safety rules are followed in using tools. Thus, it may be necessary to provide various programs of safety education for students and to deliver the instruction of safety rules in the class.