英文摘要 |
This study investigated the effects of curriculum intervention in self care education activities on young children’s practice of self care in mixed age classes. The researchers used self developed “young children’s self care practice questionnaire” and “The self care education activities curriculum intervention for children” as a research tool. The subjects were young children aged between four and five years old, selected via purposive sampling from two mixed age classes in a public preschool in Taichung City. The quasi experimental method was adopted, and the valid sample comprised of 52 young children. They were divided into the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group performed eight weeks for a total of 1,200 minutes of self care education activities. Before the interventions, there was no significant difference between the two groups in the dimensions of eating, dressing, toileting, sleeping, cleaning hygiene, and overall scale practice. After the education activities curriculum intervention, young children in the experimental group of “self care practice” were significantly better than the control group in dressing, toileting, sleeping, cleaning hygiene, and overall scale. After the education activities curriculum interventions, the experimental group showed a significant improvement in eating, dressing, toileting, sleeping, cleaning hygiene, and the overall score over pretest results. It is helpful for young children to learn self care skills at preschool by curriculum intervention with self care education activities for eight weeks. This study was mainly based on the experimental results and the conclusions found more preschool educators, young children caregivers, and future researchers consider the importance of education intervention and furthermore direct future research on children’s education. |