위키를 활용한 예비 유아교사와 경력 학습자 간 협력학습의 효과

Abstract

The study was to design appropriate instructional methods so that cover the lack of demanding skills for the contemporary college students such as basic academy skills, basic job skills and skills to apply their major learning to the work place and to examine the effects of the methods. The authors hypothesized that the collaborative learning activities between the novice early childhood pre-service teachers & the expert learners who have some experiences on educating kids would be effective instructional methods. This was based on Vygotsky's perspectives arguing that learners' potential ability within the ZPD can be enhanced into the real development level through scaffolding by competent adults or peers. Thereby a collaborative learning environment based on wiki was devised applying Vygotsky's instructional strategies. Empirical experiment was conducted with 107 early childhood pre-service teachers (79 novice and 28 experienced learners) in order to examine effects of the instructional methods. The result is as below:First, teachers' belief on DAP was remarkably improved for novice early childhood pre-service teachers' group. More specifically, novice learners more solidified the belief on teaching practice appropriate to early childhood development i.e. evaluation though monitoring, various teaching strategies' use for literacy and appropriate integrative teaching and learning. Second, the novice early childhood pre-service teachers recognized the wiki based learning environment as effective tools for sharing information with peers, actively communicating and giving comments. Third, collaborative preferential tendency on learning style was meaningfully increased in both novice and experienced learners' group. That is to say the learners become more like engaging task performing with peers, receiving feedback from peers and learning with others' advise and help after experiencing the collaborative learning on the wiki based environment. The results implicate that collaborative learning with experienced learners on the wiki based environment can be useful instructional support to raise the expertise for novice college students. The study concluded with suggestions for future research.