미래사회에 대비한 유아 의사결정능력에 대한 유아교사의 인식

Abstract

The objective of this study is to find out early childhood teacher’s awareness about changes of the future society and early childhood’s decision-making ability, and to provide basic materials for education to develop early childhood’s decision-making ability. Methods: The study was conducted with 288 early childhood teachers working in daycare centers and kindergartens located in I-city and J-city areas. To find out early childhood teacher’s level of awareness about changes of the future society and early childhood’s decision-making ability, frequency, percentage, and average depending on questions were produced. Frequency and percentage were produced to find out early childhood teachers’ awareness about the direction of education to develop early childhood’s decision-making ability for the future society. Results: The results are as follows. First, early childhood teachers’ awareness about changes of the future society was shown to be positive by and large. Second, early childhood teachers’ level of awareness about early childhood’s decision-making ability was shown to be upper-middling. Lastly, when it came to early childhood teacher’s awareness about the direction of education to promote early childhood’s decision-making ability for the future society, the most teachers responded that ‘emotional literacy’ and ‘ability to use situational proper communication techniques’ were most needed. The most teachers responded that ‘development of teaching materials and tools and teaching and learning materials’ was necessary to develop early childhood’s decision-making ability. Conclusion/Implications: The results of this study can lead to the following facts. First, a program development and a related teacher training are needed to improve the early childhood’s decision-making ability. Second, in the process of gathering some situational alternatives and selecting optimal conditions, various educational activities to give chances to regulate and control themselves need to be provided. Third, through teacher training, concrete information related to decision-making ability and various teaching materials need to be provided.