光州市 家計의 課外教育과 經濟的 負擔感에 대한 實態調査

A Survey on the Extracurricular Education and the Economic Strain of Households in Kwangju City

This study aims to investigate the actual extracurricular education and economic strains of households. For these purposes, 372 households in Kwangju with students but collegians were surveyed through the questionnaire method. The frequency, percentile, One-way ANOVA in GLM and Chi-square test were used for the data analysis. The Results were as follows: 1. Most of households takes extracurricular lessons(334) and be willing to do (268). Many have concerns about it and need it. 2. The average lesson number is 2 subject and average cost per household is 177,000 won. 3. The average economic strains due to the extracurricular cost is 22 points. Economic strains differ according to the socio-economic variables (e. g. father’s educational level, mother’s educational level, average income level per month, and to the attitude variables, extracurricular will in future, parent concerns, and needs. Here we can conclude, many households have economic strains due to extracurricular fees. And the economic strains by extracurricular lessons are so undesirable to family growth and development that government have to reform the educational structure. So the social need to the extracurricular lesson will be taken away. But in reality, still extracurricular lessons are so needed that the households must have any strategies to face the economic strains.