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Concept Mapping of Parents and Teachers' Perception on the Transition to Kindergarten for Culturally Diverse Children with Special Needs

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2018, 19(2), pp.283-309
  • DOI : 10.19049/JSPED.2018.19.2.13
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : May 14, 2018
  • Accepted : June 25, 2018
  • Published : June 30, 2018

MiRa Kang 1 Hyunah Seo 1

1경성대학교

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ABSTRACT

The study was to investigate the perception of teachers and parents in order to transition to kindergarten of culturally diverse children with special needs. 11 mothers were requested their experiences about transition to kindergarten for child in the pilot study. In current study, 33 statements extracted from that recording were sorted by teachers and rated by themselves. 3 thematic cluster-map was named, 'find good kindergarten for child', 'adapt to life in a new kindergarten', and 'prepare the transition to kindergarten'. Data collected using concept mapping methodology were analyzed in three steps. These steps included creating a similarity matrix from the sort data, conducting multidimensional scaling of the similarity matrix to locate each statement on a two-dimensional map, and conducting a hierarchical cluster analysis of the two-dimensional coordinates to create clusters or groups of similarly-sorted statements. A dendrogram was produced to determine the number of suitable clusters. Finally, recommendations for further study were suggested.

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