유치원의 마을교육공동체 교육과정 운영 특성 분석 : A시 공립유치원 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the perception of kindergarten teachers on village education community education and how the village education community curriculum is operated in kindergartens by subdividing it into innovative kindergartens and general kindergartens. To achieve this goal, focusing on the case of ‘A’ city, the current study investigated perceptions of public kindergarten teachers of village education community education, curriculum operation status, difficulties, and improvement requirements. The followings are the summary of the main findings from this study. First, kindergarten teachers in general positively recognized the concept of the village education community, and teachers working in innovative kindergartens were not only more aware of the concept of the village education community than general kindergarten teachers, but also recognized a higher degree of usefulness of village education community on early childhood education. Second, kindergarten teachers perceived greater difficulty in operating the curriculum that are operated through consultation with the community(village), rather than operating curriculum based on the topic of the community and curriculum that utilize the community resources. Third, kindergarten teachers pointed out the lack of 'promotion’ and ‘resources and infrastructure as the major hindrance factors, and there was a high demand for improvement on the ‘increase in the participation of the local community and ‘diversification of the programs’ operated by village education community curriculum.