| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 幼兒保育系 === 104 === The Status, Needs, and Difficulties of In-service Education of
Caregivers in Taichung Infant Care Centers
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the status, needs, and difficulties of
in-service education of caregivers in Taichung infant care centers. Research
participants were caregivers from 72 infant care centers in Taichung City. This
study used questionnaires to collect data, 216 questionnaires were distributed, 5
invalid and 190 valid questionnaires were returned, with 88% valid return rate.
The resulting data were analyzed with SPSS18 statistical software, using
descriptive statistics, Chi-square, independent-sample t tests, etc. In addition, 3
caregivers in Taichung City infant care centers were interviewed to provide indepth
information about the status, needs, and difficulties of in-service education
of caregivers in Taichung infant care centers. Finally, there were analyses and
discussions about the research results.
The results are described in the following:
1. The status of in-service education of caregivers in Taichung infant care
centers.
(1) The types of in-service education of caregivers in Taichung infant care
centers participated were personal education, inside organization education,
outside organization education, and academic degree education sequentially.
(2) The time of in-service education of caregivers in Taichung infant care
centers were weekends and weekday nights sequentially.
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(3) The costs for in-service education of caregivers in Taichung infant care
centers for academic degree educations were mainly at one's own expense. The
costs for other types of in-service education were mainly free.
(4) Sources of in-serviced education were from friends, internet, and mails from
sponsor organizations.
(5) There were significant differences of status of in-service education of
caregivers in Taichung infant care centers in different age, status of marriage,
seniority (working-years), organization characteristics. But, education levels and
qualifications were not significantly related to status of in-service education of
caregivers in Taichung infant care centers
2. The needs of in-service education of caregivers in Taichung infant care
centers.
(1) The expecting types of in-service education of caregivers in Taichung infant
care centers for the next 3 years were personal education, outside the
organization, inside the organization, and academic degree sequentially.
(2) Weekend were ranked as the most wanted time for in-service education of
caregivers in Taichung infant care centers.
(3)“First-Aid Training for Emergency Accidents”, “Infant/Toddler development”,
“Safety of child-care centers and Crisis Management” were ranked top three
needed courses of in-service education by caregivers in Taichung infant care
centers. In addition, caregivers also were interested in diverse courses, such as
“Music Games”, “Sensory Integration”, “Infant/Toddler Massage”, “Toddler
Rhythmic Movement”, “Toddler Sign Language”, “Parent-child yoga”.
3. The difficulties of in-service education of caregivers in Taichung infant care
centers.
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(1) Difficulties included time of in-service education not fitting into schedule,
cost of in-service education, distance of in-service education, no incentive after
in-service education, no information about in-service education, etc.
(2) Different age, status of marriage, serving with administrative duties and
program size were significantly related to difficulties of caregivers in Taichung
infant care centers.
Finally, this study provides the following suggestions:
1. Government should invest more resources to provide diverse in-service
education through new technology and media.
2. The educational institutions should provide in-service education courses
meeting the needs of caregivers.
3. Infant care centers can provide program-based in-service education, through
collaboration and exchange thoughts and experiences to solve problems in
infant/toddler care.
Suggestions for future research:
1. For research methods, future studies can conduct longitudinal research by
observation and analyses to understand the status, needs, and difficulties of
in-service education of caregivers.
2. Expand the areas for research, the research participants can be randomly
chosen from the whole country or other areas, to have more external validity.
3. For research topics, future studies can investigate the effects of in-service
education of caregivers in infant care centers.
Keywords: infant care centers, caregivers, in-service education status, needs,
difficulties.
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