• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.71-88
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• 2003

Concept mapping was used to analyze the knowledge of kindergarten teachers about early childhood music instructional content. Data obtained from the 85 subjects was analyzed by Yun's method(1998) based on Novak & Gowin(1984), Morine-Dershimer(1993), and Markhan, Mintzes & Jones(1994). The majority of the teachers perceived the superordinate concepts of early childhood music instructional content to be listening to music, singing, movement, and playing musical instruments. They perceived early childhood music instructional content to be activity rather then knowledge. Listening to music was high in frequency among superordinate concepts and musical attitudes were high among subordinate concepts. Teachers used 285 words in expressing their cognitive maps. There was no effect on cognitive maps by teaching career or level of education.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.470-477
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• 2017

The Quality of Early Childhood Teachers has recently become More Important as the Amount of Time Spent by Early Childhood Educational Institutions Increases. The Purpose of this Study was to Investigate the Effects of Professionalism Awareness and Occupational Stress on Teacher and Child Interactions in Early Childhood Teachers. The Questionnaires were Distributed to 150 teachers in 30 Early Childhood Education Centers and 134 completed Questionnaires were Collected and Analyzed Using SPSS 18.0 Program. The Results of this Study are as Follows. First, the Lack of Leadership and Administrative Support Adversely Affects Teacher's Professionalism Awareness. Behavior Interaction and Verbal Interaction among Teachers and Children are Influenced by Emotional Interaction. Second, analysis of the Influence of Professionalism Awareness and Occupational Stress on Emotional Interaction of Early Childhood Teachers revealed that Among the Sub-factors of Professional Awareness, the Variables of Work Ethics, Professional Knowledge and Technical Requirements Positively Influenced Affective, Emotional, Verbal, and Behavioral Interactions.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.597-603
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to predict self-leadership, happiness, and job satisfaction as variables affecting the quality of life of early childhood teachers, targeting 280 early childhood teachers. The research results are as follows. First, as a result of examining the level of awareness, self-leadership, job satisfaction, and happiness were found to be high in the order. Second, as a result of examining the correlations among early childhood teachers' self-leadership, job satisfaction, and happiness, positive correlations between the three variables were found. Third, the happiness of early childhood teachers was found to partially mediate self-leadership and job satisfaction. This study seeks various ways to increase the job satisfaction of early childhood teachers and provides basic data for developing teacher education programs to improve the quality of early childhood education.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.15-26
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• 1997

The purpose of this study was to investigate the teacher's and parent's recognition of kindergarten and elementary school about the public education in early childhood education. Especially they included the recognition of concept and necessity, preconsideration, and the direction of future policy of early childhood education to public one. The subjects were 182 teachers and 190 parents in kindergarten and elementary school in Korea. The data was analyzed by Frequency, Percentage, and Chi-Square. The main results were as follows; 1. Teachers and parents defined the concept of public education of the early childhood education as a system which puts a direction in operation and support the finances of national and local government for public and private kindergarten. In addition, teachers and parents thought that the public education was necessary because early childhood was important in developmental aspects. 2. Teachers and parents insisted that the expansion of understanding about public education should be preconsidered and various early childhood programs should be developed. 3. Teachers and parents also agreed that the public education policy should be based on the model and should be progressed sequentially. But they distrusted the current policy.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.1-18
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• 2024

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the needs of early childhood teachers in order to improve their competencies for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Methods: Two hundred fifty-four early childhood teachers working in the B area responded to a questionnaire developed by the researcher, assessing the importance and performance of various competencies. The data were analyzed using the Borich demand model and the Locus for Focus model. Results: First, in terms of educational needs by category, the competency to implement ESD was identified as the highest priority, followed by understanding the value of ESD and the economic aspects of ESD content. Second, 17 items were identified as the top priority for educational needs in each detailed item, and 6 items were identified as the next priority. Conclusion/Implications: By directly analyzing the needs of early childhood teachers to improve their competencies for ESD, this study was able to identify the competencies required to enhance ESD for young children. Additionally, it provided a basis for discussing the direction of teacher education for early childhood teachers in the context of ESD.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.187-208
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• 2017

This study surveyed 60 early childhood teachers at the kindergartens and day care centers in Incheon Metropolitan City to examine the contents and extent of the teachers' knowledge on early childhood history education by using the definition map designed by Novak and Gowin(1984). To be more specific, the researcher asked the participating teachers through group meetings to draw the definition maps and analyzed them. The results were as follow. First, 11 categories for high level definition of early childhood history education used by early childhood education were identified, among which the most frequently used high level definition were 'life style' followed in order by 'culture/art' and 'great men.' Second, in terms of the average number of dependent definitions included in the given high level definitions, the largest was 'life style' which was followed in order by culture/art, activity methods. It means that the widest area of early childhood teachers' knowledge on early childhood history education was about 'life style,' while it shows that the extent of knowledge on teaching-learning methods was relatively wide. However, in the case of great men, although it was frequently recognized in the high level of definition it was not so in the dependent definitions, meaning the extent of their knowledge was rather narrow. Scholars explain that the higher the teachers' attention and knowledge about the content of curriculum the more options of teaching method they tend to employ to teach in a more extensive and diverged way. Therefore, in order to improve early childhood education, efforts should be more focused on deepening and systemizing the knowledge of early childhood teachers.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.20 no.1 s.61
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• pp.15-22
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• 2006

This study intends to raise the fire safety awareness level which the teachers have in infant schools. The results of the study are as follows. The early childhood teachers consider the fire safety awareness level of our society low, though their fire safety awareness level be above the average. The education program for the fire safety is mapped out and the teachers prefer an observation class and a field trip for the program in almost infant schools. The early childhood teachers have difficulty acquiring the knowledge for the field experience and work and getting teaching aids for the fire safety. Therefore the early childhood teachers extremely much desire teaching aids for infants to be developed and diffused.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.126-136
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to investigate the application experience and observation of young children's teachers' digital devices. The participants of this study were 6 young children teachers using digital devices. Individual interviews were conducted as a data collection method. It was conducted 2-3 times per research participant. Data collection was conducted from November to December 2020. The Data analysis was focused on the young children's teachers' digital device application experience and observation use. 'Easy and simple use', 'using existing familiar apps', 'providing healing to teachers', and 'improving the utilization of spare time' were derived as early childhood teachers' experience of applying digital devices. 'Easy use of observation records', 'Use together in various ways', 'Use for parent counseling', 'Use appropriate for observation of revised Nuri Curriculum' through early childhood teacher's experience of observing digital devices ' was derived. As a conclusion of this study, first, it is easy for young children's teachers to apply digital devices to the field. Second, if young children's teachers use digital devices, they can make a wide range of observations, enabling high-quality early childhood education practices.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.125-146
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of early childhood teachers' job satisfaction on the relationship between teacher's emotional intelligence and young children's happiness. The subjects in this study comprised 294 young children and 24 early childhood teachers in Busan, Gyeongsangnam-do. The findings of study were as follow: the job satisfaction of the early childhood teachers was found to have a mediating effect on the relationship between their emotional intelligence and young children's happiness. These findings suggest that in order to promote young children's happiness, it is necessary to strengthen teachers' emotional abilities and to support strategies which enhance and build up their job satisfaction.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.656-666
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate early childhood teachers' difficulties in creativity education. The subjects of this study were 10 early childhood teachers. Data were collected from reflective journals and in depth interviews. The results were as follows: First, the difficulties fall into two categories; inter and outer difficulties. Second, inter difficulties were teachers' misunderstanding of creativity. Third, outer difficulties were parent's demand for prerequisite learning, kindergarten director's goals of education, insufficient pre-service teacher education, and a lack of support to teachers.