A Study on the Supervisor Role of the University Students’ Mentoring for Multicultural Family Children

After 2000 in Korea society, multicultural family is constantly increasing through international marriages. Their interest in child-rearing and education is also followed. The learning mentoring for multicultural children has its own purpose on the learning skill, psychological and emotional support. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology contracts this business out to Korean Student Aid Foundation, and it has awarded scholarships to university students who participate in learning mentoring for them. In present, 47 universities are participating in multicultural mentoring. This study is to focus on the role of supervisors who instruct Inha university students engaging in the multicultural mentoring. This was one of the business developed by The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology on 2011. Multicultural learning mentoring focuses on enhancing teaching skill of pre-teachers and learning skill of multicultural students. There are a plenty of studies on enhancement of learning skill and mentoring actives, however, studies on the supervisor is insufficient. In this point, the researcher took a look at the role of supervisor in the learning mentoring for multicultural children. Therefore, this study made in-depth interviews with three heads of business in each university. Also, research material includes interview with 00 number of university students participating in this mentoring.As a result, the supervisors should following skills; network application ability for smooth communication, multicultural citizenship, multicultural sensitivity toward various cultures, counseling skills for mentally supporting mentors, and so on. For the mentors, they can extend the emotional exchange, counsel their problems, and give emotional support. Administrational support should include effective supervision matching.