Impact on Early Childhood Society of Early Childhood Debate Program on Perspective Taking

This study aimed to verify the effect of a discussion program for infants based on perspective-taking on infant sociality. To this end, 38 infants in 2 classes of kindergarten B located in K Province were selected as the subjects of the study. The experimental group applied a discussion program for infants based on perspective taking, and the comparison group applied a problem-situation story-sharing program using picture books. The experimental treatment was conducted for 4 weeks, and the data collected after the experimental treatment were subjected to a t-test using the SPSS 23.0 program. The results of the study were as follows: First, infants’ overall perspective-taking ability and some sub-areas of cognitive perspective-taking were significantly higher. Second, among the sub-areas of infant social ability, social regulation success, help-seeking success, and cooperation skills were significantly higher. Third, in infant emotional execution, overall emotional execution and the sticker finding task, which is a sub-task of emotional execution ability, were significantly higher. These research results suggest that a discussion program for infants based on perspective-taking can be an effective teaching and learning method for infant social development.