This study aims to classify parents by considering important factors in the management of foodservice for children. An offline survey was conducted by enrolling 583 Korean parents whose children attended public or private kindergartens in Seoul. The important factors required for managing foodservice for children are meal service resources, menu management, and food allergy. Considering these factors, parents were grouped into 3 clusters: the allergy important group, environment important group, and high concern group. Evaluation of the demographic characteristics revealed a significant difference between clusters with respect to type of kindergarten. Parents perceived that a private kitchen is more required than a private dining room, and perceptions about the need for a private kitchen and dining room were significantly different among the clusters. Furthermore, the results reveal significant differences between clusters, when considering the need to support meal service. Therefore, the government needs to consider characteristics of the parent cluster if they plan to support the kindergarten foodservice. We believe that this study can be used as supportive data to establish a working policy.

During the last decade, an increasing number of immigrants came to Korea mainly for getting jobs and following their spouses, and the Korean government attempted to introduce several policies and projects. Among those policies and projects, the bilingual teacher development program was launched for developing bilingual teachers to teach their cultures and languages to multicultural and general students as well. The purpose of this research was to find out what multicultural immigrant women who participated in a bilingual teacher development program wanted to obtain from the program, and possibly to suggest aiming at developing a teacher training program for the future. Twelve pre-service bilingual teachers who were being trained in bilingual teacher development program participated in the pre- and post-questionnaire surveys. The results of the study are as follows. First, 12 pre-service bilingual teachers fully understood their roles as bilingual teachers and they think they are prepared to carry out those roles through the training program and the practicum. However, after the practicum they recognized they need to deepen their knowledge on child psychology, counseling and material development. Next, the pre-service teachers were satisfied with the training program and the courses they took in the program would be helpful to work as a bilingual teacher. However, they demand more practicum in the training curriculum. Some suggestions are made for improving the current system of practicum in the bilingual teacher training curriculum.

This research focuses on analyzing characteristics and needs of engineering students in an EFL context, which is designed as a preliminary study of content-based language instruction to develop NURI English model. For the purpose of this study, I conduct surveys and interviews on 147 engineering students to find out students’ needs and interests as well as 9 professors to recognize their notions of what language skills would benefit engineering students. The results of surveys and interviews strongly suggest the need to adopt a learner-centered level approach with which NURI English can incorporate communicative English for general and specific purposes in the field of engineering as well as TOEIC instruction. The results of this study also lead to an instructional parameter for NURI English program that requires for taking into account an instruction model of the integration of language and content for engineering students. The present study offers a few pedagogical implications for language educators who want to design a content-based language instruction model for engineering students in EFL contexts.

This study examined the consumers' awareness and information need toward the irradiated foods and environmental hormones. The data were collected from 350 adults living in Daegu and Busan by the self-administered questionnaire. Frequencies and chi-square tests were conducted by SPSS. The results of the survey were as follows: (1) consumers' awareness regarding the irradiated foods and environmental hormones were low, while consumers' concerns for them were high, (2) the orders of the information needs for the irradiated foods are safety of irradiated foods, dose permitted for food irradiation, benefits of irradiated foods, kinds of permitted irradiated foods, and legislations of food irradiation, and (3) the orders of the information needs for the environmental hormones are harmfulness of environmental hormones, standards for contamination by environmental hormones, materials releasing environmental hormones, methods to prevent environmental hormones, and kinds of environmental hormones.

본 연구는 공립유치원교사가 자신이 수행하는 직무의 수행도, 중요도, 난이도에 대하여 어떠한 인식을 가지고 있는지를 분석해보고, 나아가 교육 및 지원의 필요도를 밝히고자 하는데 목적이 있다. 연구결과, 공립유치원교사는 본 연구에 기술된 직무를 보통 이상으로 자주 수행하는 것으로 나타났으며 자신의 직무 를 다소 중요하게 생각하였고, 직무의 난이도는 보통 이상으로 어려워하는 것으로 나타났다. 공립유치원교 사에게 교육 및 지원이 우선적으로 요구되는 직무영역은 교육활동영역이고, 교수학습 실제와 학부모 관계 에서 교육 및 지원의 요구가 높게 나타났다.

본 연구는 소비자가 제품을 사용함으로써 브랜드 이미지를 자연스럽게 인지하는 것에 대하여 분석하는데 궁극적인 목적이 있다. 실증분석에 앞서 기업브랜드 이미지를 형성하는 요소들 중에서 디자인 요소의 실험 비중이 크다고 할 수 있기 때문에 가구 기업 중에서도 디자인 중심적 기업 경영을 하고 있는 D기업을 실증분석대상으로 선정하게 되었다. ZMET 기법은 현재 기업의 마케팅 분석에 있어서 이미지를 통해 소비자의 잠재의식을 알아보는 기법으로서 효율성이 입증되어 사용되어 지고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 ZMET 기법을 응용하여 소비자의 잠재된 니즈 분석을 통한 디자인 상품화 과정에 관한 연구를 하고자 한다. 본 연구는 ZMET를 응용한 은유기법을 통해서 상품화나 기업디자인에 적용될 수 있는 소비자의 형태 이미지나 색채 심리 등으로 도출되어 지는 것에 궁극적인 목적을 두고 있다. 실험 방법인 은유 기업은 소비자의 잠재된 생각을 통해서 기업디자인 전략 수립에 많은 도움과 효과를 낳을 수 있을 것이라 기대한다.