유치원 일반학급 순회교육 지원에 대한 유아교사의 인식연구

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to provide the basic information for invigorating the itinerant education at the kindergarten level and helping it settle in the right direction through the survey on the perception of early childhood education teachers on the itinerant education support for kindergarten general classes that is provided centrally by the Special Education Support Center. Research goals of this study are as follows. The first is to check whether teachers of the early childhood education have perceived the definition and the concept of the itinerant education. The second is to see the perception of early childhood education teachers on the itinerant education support for the kindergarten general classes. The third is to investigate how to improve the itinerant education support for kindergarten general classes. To achieve the purpose of this study, a questionnaire was distributed to 110 early childhood education teachers who have had experiences in the education of children in their early childhood eligible for the special education and with the exclusion of 3 providing unfaithful answers out of 97 returned questionnaires, total of 94 returned questionnaires were analyzed to draw out the conclusion of the study. The results are as follows. Firstly, regarding whether to have perceived the definition and the concept of the itinerant education or not, most of early childhood education teachers have been aware that a provision on the itinerant education support is specified in the special education law and children eligible for special education placed in kindergarten general classes can get the itinerant education support. Secondly, with respect to the perception of early childhood teachers on the itinerant education support for kindergarten general classes, although most of th early childhood teachers recognized that the itinerant education was needed, the number of early childhood teachers who had received th itinerant education support was actually small. Thirdly, regarding the perception of early chilhood teachers on the improvement measures to help the desirable itinerant education settling down, they answered that the improvement should be made in public relations about the itinerant education support, the recruitment for reinforcing itinerant teachers for the itinerant education support, the placement of qualified professional itinerant teachers and regular full-time teachers, the cooperation between itinerant and early childhood teachers, and the support of relevant services including the special education support. Itinerant education needs to settle in the right direction in order for the education to be suitably performed to children eligible for the special education placed in the kindergarten general classes for the purpose of the early childhood special education, and for this purpose, it is considered that the improvement measures on the itinerant education suggested in this study should be reviewed as sons as possible.