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Examples of Consultation for Children of Multicultural Family

Kwon, Soonhee

전주교육대학교

Published: January 2007 · No. 29 · pp. 127-174

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20880/kler.2007..29.127

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Examples of Consultation for Children of Multicultural FamilyKwon, Soon-hee Children of international marriage and immigrants are increasing in Korea. As the results, racial, national, and cultural diversity at elementary school is also increasing. At school teachers are teaching children of multicultural family without preparedness for multicultural education. In this study, examples of consultation for children of multicultural family were studied to provide a guidance to teachers.Examples of consultation for this study were collected from 15 teachers having experiences of teaching children of multicultural family in the province of Kyunggi-do, Chungcheong-do, and Jeolla-do where multicultural families are abundant. Also examples of consultation for 5 foreign mothers were included in this study. On the basis of the examples, directions of education for children of multicultural family have suggested as following.First, troubles suffered by children of multicultural family are caused by a broken home and financial difficulty rather than multicultural difficulty. Teachers should treat children of multicultural family just like those of Korean family in a natural manner rather than intentional multicultural education manner.Second, consulting methods for teachers to children of multicultural family should be developed, because the role of teacher is very important at elementary school.Third, children of multicultural family should receive education from home as well as school for synergistic educational effect. Therefore national and social counterplans should be considered.Fourth, diverse cultural experiences and continuing consultation should be provided to children of multicultural family.Finally, re-education are necessary for teachers to make them understand multicultural education.
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