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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.7.317

The Influence of Early Childhood Preservice Teachers' Aptitude of ChildCare Teacher on their Perception of Teacher Professionalism  

Kim, Young-Tae (Dept. of Childcare, Wonkwang Health Science University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.7, 2019 , pp. 317-324 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to find how the childcare teacher aptitude of students majoring in childcare and education influences their perception of teacher professionalism. To achieve that, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 216 early childhood preservice teachers living in A city. For data processing and analysis, SPSS program was used so as to conduct frequency analysis and calculate the mean and standard deviation. In addition, to test reliability and find relations between variables, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis were conducted. As a result, firstly, in terms of the childcare teacher aptitude perceived by the students majoring in childcare and education, they highly perceived an affinity with young children and a sense of calling of their job; in terms of their perception of teacher professionalism, they highly perceived social necessity and vocational ethics. Secondly, early childhood preservice teachers' childcare teacher aptitude had a statistically significant correlation with their perception of teacher professionalism. Thirdly, the sub factors of early childhood preservice teachers' childcare teacher aptitude all positively influenced the sub factors of the perception of teacher professionalism. Given the study results, the students majoring in childcare and education perceived the importance of their aptitude of childcare teacher. In order to provide high-quality childcare service and create the positive aptitude of childcare teacher, it will be necessary to conduct a variety of basic research.
Keywords
Early Childhood Preservice Teachers; Aptitude of Childcare Teacher; Perception of Teacher Professionalism; Childcare Teacher; Aptitude; Teacher Professionalism;
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