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The purpose of this study was to understand the expectations that Korean society place on children’s lives by analyzing perceptions that parents have regarding early literacy education. The 48 parents of young children aged 3 to 5 residing in Seoul/Kyungki were interviewed. The interview data wer...

The purpose of this study was to understand the expectations that Korean society place on children’s lives by analyzing perceptions that parents have regarding early literacy education. The 48 parents of young children aged 3 to 5 residing in Seoul/Kyungki were interviewed. The interview data were analyzed using content analysis according to the emerging categories of purposes, expectations, methods, and the main actor of early literacy education. The findings of the study indicate that parents perceive the goal of early literacy education as to have children ready for elementary school. Therefore, they expected young children to attain literacy level that their children can adapt to elementary school. Most popular methods that parents use to teach their children to be literate is a worksheet and they emphasize parents’ role in making use of the worksheets. In-depth meanings of early literacy education drawn from the results is that underlying discourse that circulate through all the practices and the perceptions is the anxiety regarding elementary school. In conclusion, it is discussed that perceptions and practices to relieve from the elementary school anxiety is a way in which education fever is expressed, reflecting the specific periods of childhood.

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