In the following paper the focus was put on the child's emotional attachment on the preschool teacher and the social interaction between the two. The first part is composed from the theoretical presentation and definition of the general characteristics of emotional attachment, while in the second part the focus goes to the development of the emotional attachment and the character traits of the person, on which the children are attached. The quality of preschool services is also put in consideration while measuring the development of emotional attachment.
In the empirical part of the paper, 30 children and 5 preschool teacher were observed in 5 different preschool classes. On the basis of observation of children’s behaviour in relationship to the teacher the Chart of child’s attachment to the teacher and the Chart of social interaction of the teacher with the children were composed from the aspect of the writer of the paper. On the other side, teacher had to fill out the Chart of child’s behaviour to the teacher for the group of own 6 children and the Chart of social interaction of the teacher with the children for herself. The writer was interested, what kind of attachment level is shown by the children, what kind of social interactions are used by the teachers and how the child’s behaviour, which shows the quality of its attachment to the teacher is related to some of the traits of social interaction of the teacher (positive relationship, punishment, restraint and permissiveness) and how the writer’s grade are different from the teacher’s.
The conclusion of the paper is, that mostly children show a safe attachment to the teacher and very little anxiety attachment. All of the studied teachers have shown a high level of positive relationship and a low level of restraint and punishment. There was also a minimum difference between the teacher’s and writer’s grades in the Chart of child’s attachment to the teacher and the Chart of social interaction of the teacher. Possible correlations between the positive relationships of the teacher with the children (which were highly measured in all of the classes) with safe attachment (that were measured in high levels in children’s behaviour) were observed. Also observed were weak correlation with anxiety attachment and weak permissive, restraint and punishment actions of the teacher. At the development of the safe attachment affects lots of different factors and not only social interactions of the teacher (quality of preschool service can be one of them).
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