Teaching Kindergarten Children on Death by Using Picture Books

• Main Authors: Wan-Ting Chang, 張琬婷
• Other Authors: 陳淑琴
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09210118804271266578

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 96 === The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of picture book teaching on children’s death concepts, and to analyze the kindergarten teacher’s obstacles encountered and strategies adopted during the teaching process. The method of this study was a qualitative research and adopted the single-group pretest-posttest design. The subjects, 13 aged 5-6 children were selected from one mixed-age class in the child care center affiliated to an orphanage in Taichung City. Data were mainly gathered through observations and interviews, and the related documents were closely examined and analyzed. The major findings are as the followings: 1. Two stages were identified of picture book teaching process: preparing and teaching stages. The preparation phrase included picture books selection, environment arrangement, and teacher’s preparation. 2. Proper classroom regulations, teacher’s experience sharing and demonstration, and providing various teaching materials can be helpful to the effective teaching. 3. The data revealed that children's death concepts become more and more mature after picture book teaching. It also showed that children of different age and different environmental background cause differences in death concept development. 4. The difficulties that the kindergarten teacher encountered during the teaching process included the picture books selection, teacher's death concept recognition and teaching competence building, selection of suitable teaching methods, parents' attitude, teaching time arrangement and how to deal with the accident. 5. It was found that through the process of picture book teaching, the death concept recognition and teaching competence of the kindergarten teacher was improved. Children’s language expression ability and reading behaviors were also improved. According to the findings, some suggestions and recommendations are proposed by this researcher to the orphanages, kindergartens, early childhood teachers, parents, the teacher education programs and the future studies as well.