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The Effects of Early Childhood Teachers' Professional Development and Grit on Their Teacher-Child Interactions

  • Yurim Chae (Graduate School of Eduction, Incheon National University) ;
  • Sanglim Kim (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Incheon National University)
  • Received : 2024.07.20
  • Accepted : 2024.09.01
  • Published : 2024.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of early childhood teachers' professional development and Grit on their teacher-child interactions. The subjects were 363 early childhood teachers working at kindergartens or childcare centers of South Korea. We used self-reporting survey questionnaires to measure the major variables and utilized the SPSS 28.0 Program to analyze the collected data. Cronbach's alphas were calculated and the descriptive statistical analyses were conducted. To investigate the research questions, Pearson's correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were done. As results, the higher early childhood teachers' professional development and Grit were, the higher their teacher-child interactions were. Early childhood teachers' professional development and Grit were found to have positive effects on their teacher-child interactions, which showed that professional development and Grit would predict the quality of interactions between teacher and young children. Based on these results, we suggest the importance of early childhood teachers' professional development and Grit so that they practice excellent interactions with young children in order to support development and learning through play.

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Acknowledgement

This work was part of first author's master's thesis, Incheon National University.

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