The Acceptance of Using WeChat as a Parent-Teacher Communication Approach of the Kindergarten Teachers in Macau

• Main Authors: Leong, Weng-I, 梁穎兒
• Other Authors: 郝永崴
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/knwkh4

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育學系 === 107 === The study aimed to research the acceptance conditions of using WeChat as an approach of parent-teacher communication from the perspective of the kindergarten teachers in Macau. To achieve the purposes, the researcher surveyed and interviewed the research participants who are the kindergarten teachers working in Macau in 2017. The total of 517 teachers were invited for survey, and 456 participated, in which 450 contributed to valid data. Among the survey respondants, three kindergarten teachers participated in the semi-structured interviews to help interpret the results of quantitative analyses. The results of the study indicated that most kindergarten teachers and kindergarten organizations in Macao did not use or require teachers use WeChat as a communication media with the parents. While the teachers tended to use WeChat between 6 to 9 pm or during their working hours as a media to communicate with the parents. Regarding the acceptance rates, the teachers who once used WeChat to communicate with the parents made upper middle levels, while the teachers who never used the media for the purpose made lower middle levels. Furthermore, the acceptance rates was influenced by several factors, such as the current positions, the scale of the kindergartens, the mechanism of teacher selection, the requirement of using WeChat as a communication tool, the communication behavior of the teachers, and the intentions of the teachers using the instant message software. Based on the above findings, the study provides a few suggestions for the related government institutions, schools and the researches to facilitate the effectiveness of parent-teacher communication.