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The Effect of the Thinking Styles and Character Development Efficacy of Childhood Educational Teachers on Their Commitment to Teaching

유아교사의 사고양식과 인성개발 효능감이 교직헌신도에 미치는 영향

  • Received : 2013.11.15
  • Accepted : 2014.04.10
  • Published : 2014.04.30
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Abstract

This study is to examine the effect of the thinking styles and character development efficacy of childhood educational teachers on their commitment to teaching with the intention of clarifying that these two factors of childhood educational teachers are important internal variables in enhancing their dedication to teaching, and to seek ways of finding thinking styles and character development efficacy appropriate for childhood educational teachers. Childhood educational teachers at nursing schools and kindergartens located in Daejeon, Chungnam, and Chungbuk were chosen as the study objects. The results are as follows: First, it turned out that childhood educational teachers's commitment to teaching was in close relation to their judicial, monarchy, totalitarian, internal, and liberal thinking styles. As for childhood educational teachers' character development efficacy, personal efficacy and dedication to teaching showed a high level of correlation. This indicates that as childhood educational teachers preferred certain thinking styles, their commitment to teaching also could be enhanced, and that as childhood educational teachers' personal efficacy was high, their commitment to teaching was enhanced as well. Second, as for the positive effect of childhood educational teachers' thinking styles and character development efficacy on their commitment to teaching, it turned out that such factors as judicial and internal thinking styles, common teacher efficacy, and personal teacher efficacy affected professional recognition, such factors as judicial, internal, conservative, liberal thinking styles and personal teacher efficacy influenced their affection for teaching, and such factors as legislative, monarchy, anarchic, and liberal thinking styles and personal teacher efficacy affected zeal.

본 연구는 유아교사의 사고양식과 인성개발 효능감이 교직헌신도에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보고 유아교사의 사고양식과 인성개발 효능감이 교직에 대한 헌신을 높이기 위한 내적변인임을 밝혀 유아교사에게 맞는 적절한 사고양식과 인성개발 효능감을 높이기 위한 방법을 모색하는데 목적을 두고 연구하였다. 연구대상은 대전, 충남.북지역에 소재하고 있는 어린이집과 유치원에 재직 중인 346명의 유아교사들이다. 연구결과 첫째, 유아교사의 사고양식과 교직헌신도의 관계에서는 사고양식의 사법적, 군주제, 전체적, 내부적, 자유주의적 사고양식과 교직헌신도는 정적 상관관계를 나타냈으며 유아교사의 인성개발 효능감과 교직헌신도는 정적 상관관계를 나타냈다. 둘째, 유아교사의 사고양식과 인성개발 효능감이 교직헌신도에 긍정적으로 미치는 영향은 전문의식에는 사법적, 내부적 사고양식과 일반적 교사효능감, 개인적 교사효능감이 교육애에는 입법적, 내부적, 보수적, 자유주의적 사고양식과 개인적 교사효능감, 열정에는 입법적, 군주제, 무정부제, 자유주의적 사고양식과 개인적 교사효능감으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 결과는 유아교사가 특정 사고양식을 발휘하고 인성개발 효능감이 높아질수록 교직에 대한 헌신을 높일 수 있음을 입증한 것이라 할 수 있다.

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