The Education Program for the Parent witha young child based on the Buddhist Thought

ABSTRACT

The study aims at developing the education program for the parent with a young child, which is based on the buddhist thought and can be applicable in the Korean family culture. This program can help to solve the problems of bring up the child in the modern society. The survey of the requests has been done with the mothers whose children are educated at the Buddhist Day Care Center located in Gyeongju. In this study, the Parent Education Program was developed through four steps of “Establishment of education aims”, “Selection and constitution of the contents”, ’'Execution of the program”, and “Evaluation of the program.” The program is to provide the special knowledge for the development course of young child and the method to bring him up and to help to establish the stable parent-child relationship by providing the opportunity to learn and practice the methods and behaviors of child care based on the Buddhist Thought. In addition, it is focused on being a mature parent through the buddhist self discipline. The program is composed of the contents orienting the balanced development of a child by learning the method of child care based on Buddhist Thought. The program is operated for 8 weeks and the meeting is once a week.Every meeting has a two-hour education program. The program uses diverse teaching methods such as lecture, participation activity, viewmg(video, internet etc), and discussion. The procedure of the program in the meeting is Introduction(10Min), Lecture(50Min), Break(10Min), Participation Activity and Discussion (40Min), and Closing(10Min). To evaluate the effect of the program, the study checked the behavioral change of child care and surveyed the satisfaction after the program with the evaluation sheet. The program was wholly evaluated through open-type questions and interviews. To check mothers' behavioral changes of raising methods before and since the program, the “measurement of mother's raising behavior” was used. The results were compared by ‘t-test.’ (The subjects were 26 mothers without absence for 8 weeks). It shows the meaningful changes especially in the realm of Self-control and Democratic Talking Method. The satisfaction of the participants in the program was highest in the item “I am usually satisfied” with the whole contents of the program. The next was “I am much satisfied”.