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Educational Climate of Childcare Centers, Professionalism of Teachers, and Quality of Childcare Curriculum Implementation  

Lee, Sung Hye (경희대학교 교육대학원)
Kim, Yeon Ha (경희대학교 아동가족학과)
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Korean Journal of Childcare and Education / v.9, no.3, 2013 , pp. 75-93 More about this Journal
Abstract
The present study was to investigate if quality of childcare curriculum implementation could be predicted by educational climate, teachers' professionalism, and teacher/classroom characteristics. According to the results, strong positive associations existed between eudcational climate, professionalism, and implementation of childcare curriculum. The most powerful predictor of curriculum implementation quality was 'respect and acceptance' which was a sub-factor of educational climate. Also, 'public service', a sub-factor of professionalism, explained a significant amount of variances in quality of curriculum implementation. Among teacher/childcare characteristics, the type of centers was one of the strong predictors. These study results provide meaningful implications regarding the importance of socio-cultural contexts in childcare centers as well as teachers'professionalism.
Keywords
professionalism of childcare teachers; educational climate; curriculum implementation; childcare;
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