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Perception of elementary students on Inclusive Classroom-Wide Service-Learning Experience

Seung Sook Choi 1 Eunha Kim 1

1강남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to develop a service-learning program related to the school curriculum and to find out the perception of students participated in the service-learning program. The participants were 48, 2 classes of 3rd graders at C elementary school in Seoul. There was one student with intellectual disability, in each class. The students in two inclusive classrooms were participated in the service-learning program at their creative experience activity time, once a week for 12 weeks. The service-learning program was based on the key accomplishment standard of the curriculum of 1st semester of 3rd grade. Researchers has analyzed the standard and the content of each chapter and constructed the service-learning program with it. Data were collected through journal writings and pre-post focus group interviews. In order to ensure the reliability, collected data analyzed by the researchers took the procedures of the triangulation between researchers and among materials, and the member check. Researchers found that the emotion, understandings, and the behavior of students changed correlatively in positive way. The awareness of the fun implementing services for others passed into the expansion of the understanding on the service(volunteering), and the expanded understandings passed into changing behavior of the students. This study has the meaning of that it found a service-learning program which developed related to school curriculum could foster the personality of the students and facilitate the inclusion.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.