Pre-parent(parenting) education is a program designed to help those who are not yet parents prepare for their role as parents. Part of social issues stem from the failure of parenting due to a lack of parental knowledge and ethical awareness. Pre-parent education contributes to the character development and social development of children, fostering harmonious families and a healthy society. However, the weakening educational function of families due to the rise of nuclear families makes it difficult for families to fully assume the responsibility for pre-parent education. Therefore, pre-parent education, designed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of prospective parents, should be implemented as a mandatory program within the public education system. Pre-parent education requires learners to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to properly raise their children. Because it draws on academic foundations in ethics, anthropology, early childhood education, developmental psychology, counseling psychology, and human relations theory, its research and implementation require an interdisciplinary approach. The goals of pre-parent education are to foster an understanding of children’s developmental and psychological characteristics at the knowledge and understanding level; socio-emotional competencies at the process and function level; and parental ethics and parental efficacy at the value and attitude level. The goals, the content, teaching and learning methods, evaluation methods and utilization of pre-parent education must be systematized. This study presents a draft of this framework. Pre-parent education should be implemented through collaborative efforts with relevant subjects, utilizing the creative experiential activity curriculum in middle and high schools, and focusing on experiential and practical learning.
Daesung Jeong (Fri,) studied this question.