우리나라 영·유아 보육시설 운영제도상의 개선방안에 관한 연구

Abstract

As the infancy is a fundamental period having a significant effect on one's whole life, the infant nursing is very important. This infant nursing aims at taking care of infants for their maturer life. Comprehensive diagnosis and prescription of the existing activities are required to improve the nursing work, This diagnosis can discover problems of the existing works and give opportunities to find ways to settle them. To build more efficient nursing programs, parents' needs and human, physical, and institutional resources to meet the needs must be provided. When the parents' needs, resources of nurseries, and legal and administrative devices are in harmony, more rational nursing programs will be provided. Therefore, this study aimed at suggesting activation schemes to provide genuine welfare service institutions giving infants in nurseries good nurture and inducing parents to participate in economic activities by comparing infant nursing system in advanced countries with that in Korea and especially examining problems of governmental support and various equipments of nurseries. To improve administrative system of infant day care centers, first, considering that it is a social welfare work required of positive governmental support contrary to other fields including schools, annex preschools, private preschools, religious facilities, and welfare centers, private nurseries need support for all the administrative costs at the same level of national and public facilities and check for substantial administration to elevate the quality of nurture; second, personal expenses and operational costs for facilities among nursing costs as the finance of nurseries must be paid with public finances in that they nurture members of society for the next generation, and graded nursing costs must be applied according to household circumstances; third, nurture appropriate for infancy and more concrete and systematic curricular programs built by experts are required, for which operational policies for nurture must be consistent; and fourth, programs to elevate the quality of teachers are required and their pay and career approval system must be improved in order to allow those working in nurseries to have more enhanced participation consciousness. Most of all, since financial problems of nursing facilities are the greatest reason that qualitative nursing service can't be provided, nursing teachers must be improved qualitatively and given better treatment. As the infancy is a critical period for one's physical, emotional, linguistic, cognitive, social, and personal development, proper nurture in this period can form the basis of the most important human development in one's whole life. This nurture in the infancy is an important issue that can influence one's lifetime. Therefore, it is urgent that welfare policies which enable anyone to be benefited by various and superior nurture service must be provided for child welfare.