This study focuses on teenagers from multicultural families who have trouble fitting in as they advance their school education, resulting in being left out in the school environment, which presages their inability to fit in Korean society, leading to ...
This study focuses on teenagers from multicultural families who have trouble fitting in as they advance their school education, resulting in being left out in the school environment, which presages their inability to fit in Korean society, leading to a number of social problems that are hard to solve even at greater costs. Thus, this study aims to identify the reasons for the teenagers from multicultural families to stop studying at school and receiving higher education, thereby suggesting ways to prevent them from dropping out of school and nurturing them as international talent with their strengths of being bilinguals and cosmopolitan features.
To that end, this study attempts to examine the expectations of multicultural families and their teenage children on the education level and educational desire and the effect of private education on the teenage children in terms of overcoming their inability to fit in school life; this study also makes hypothesis with respect to the relationship with the teacher, peer support, family support, perception on social network, self-esteem, Korean language skills, and birthplace in order to examine the factors that influence their incompetence in school life. For the purpose of this study, 200 multicultural teenagers and their 200 parents residing in Seoul and Ilsan were surveyed, but only 345 questions were collected; excluding 21 questions that were not deemed suitable for the study, 324 questions were analyzed.
The results are made after measuring how well multicultural children fit in school to identify the factors of their inability to fit in school, or the dependent variables, which were revealed through indirect questions rather than direct questions.
The independent variables that affect multiethnic teenagers to have trouble fitting in school include the relationship with the teacher, peer support, family support, perception on social network, self-esteem, Korean language skills, and birthplace among which, after the analysis, the relationship with the teacher and self-esteem were significantly meaningful while the others were not. Furthermore, a question with respect to the potential impact of the teenagers’ expectations of educational level and educational desire and support programs for their private education on adjusting to school life was answered that these have no statistical impact.
The followings are the significant results of this study.
First, while prior studies on multiculturalism focused on foreign brides or their children, this study focuses on multicultural teenagers and their parents by surveying them separately in order to compare each group to find new results.
Second, the role the teacher plays in the teenagers’ capacity to adjust to school is increasingly important, and also the prior studies put emphasis on the importance of the teacher in the teenagers’ multicultural families. Nevertheless, it is hard to expect teachers to help multiethnic teenagers in the current educational environment. Thus, a new way should be came up with based on close relations between family, school, and the community.
Third, it is revealed that self-esteem determines how well the multicultural children adjust to school. Accordingly, in order to increase their self-esteem, there is a need for creating an environment where the teenagers can receive customized educational support so that they can take pride in their parents, learn their parents’ language and given opportunities to speak the languages. If this results in nurturing them as international talent who can exercise their full potential, Korea would turn itself into a country with many brains.
Fourth, the teenagers drop out of school, the typical type of unfit, based on their family backgrounds (whether they were born in Korea or immigrated), and 79% of them and 95.7% of their parents want higher education. Thus, if special occasions, either alternative schools or national exams, for them to enter college are allowed, more dropouts would enter university. Moreover, it is also revealed that there is a policy need that should be implemented in a way that it is customized to the recipient.
Fifth, to change the perceptions and attitudes toward multicultural society, multicultural education should be provided in the home, school, and the other parts of society. Though multi-ethnic children are a source for addressing labor shortage brought about by low fertility and population aging, they have difficulty fitting in school, drop out, stay only at home, and grow as anti-forces for Korean society, which could lead to social divides and conflicts. To prevent this from happening, education must be needed.
본 연구는 학령기 다문화가정 청소년들이 학교생활에 적응하지 못하여 학업을 중단하거나 상급학교로 갈수록 진학률이 떨어지는 등 교육현장에서 소외됨으로서 훗날 우리사회의 부적응으...
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