An Analysis of Research Trends in Forest Play Activities for Children

유아를 대상으로 한 숲놀이 활동의 연구 동향 분석

The purpose of this study was to analyze research papers related to forest play of children's and present future research directions and basic data. 174 out of the forest play papers for children's provided to the research information sharing service (www. riss. kr) from 2009 to 2018 were studied. The number of papers according to the study was 114 published for children. Looking at the research method of forest play papers for children, 55.17% for experimental papers, 9.77% for observation papers, 17.82% for research papers, 5.75% for case studies, 6.32% for literature review papers and 5.17% for other papers. Looking at trends by target age, in the case of the papers which studied on the single age, the number of papers researching on age 3.51%) for 2 years old, 2.63% for the 3 years old, 9.65% for the 4 years old, 35.96% for the 5 years old. A total of 40.36% consisted of children aged between 2 and 5 years. A total of 7.89% were published for infants and children with handicapped. The number of theses that studied emotional development accounted for 30.7%, social development was 25.44%, cognitive development was 16.67%, self concept development was 14.04%, physical development was 6.14%, language development was 3.51% and other development was 3.51%. As a result of the above analysis, it was necessary to study the language development and the forest play.

본 연구는 유아의 숲놀이와 관련된 연구논문을 분석하고 앞으로의 연구방향과 기초자료를 제시하기 위하여 실시하였다. 2009년부터 2018년까지 학술연구정보서비스(www.riss.kr)에 제공된 유아를 대상으로 한 숲놀이 논문 중 174편을 연구대상으로 하였다. 연구대상에 따른 논문수는 유아를 대상으로 한 논문이 114편으로 가장 많았다. 유아를 대상으로 한 숲놀이 논문의 연구 방향의 경향을 보면 실험연구(55.17%), 조사연구(17.82%), 관찰연구(9.77%), 사례연구(5.75%), 문헌연구(6.32%), 기타(5.17%) 순이었다. 대상연령별 연구 경향을 살펴보면 단일연령을 대상으로 연구한 논문의 경우 만 2세(3.51%), 만 3세(2.63%), 만 4세(9.65%), 만 5세(35.96%) 순 이었다. 만 2~5세의 유아를 혼합하여 연구한 경우(40.36%), 만 1세 영아 또는 장애아(7.89%)로 나타났다. 유아발달의 경향을 살펴보면 정서발달(30.7%), 사회성발달(25.44%), 인지발달(16.67%), 자아개념발달(14.04%), 신체발달(6.14%), 언어발달(3.51%), 기타(3.51%) 순으로 나타나 언어발달과 유아 숲놀이에 대한 연구가 필요한 것으로 판단되었다.