• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.495-501
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• 2021

This study examined the effects of pre-service teacher's cooperative organizational culture on the conflict management type. The subjects were 138 preschool teachers. The data were obtained by self-reporting and used to investigate the teacher's conflict management type and cooperative organizational culture. The collected data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient analysis and stepwise regression analysis. The major findings in this study were as follows; First, there was a relationship between the cooperative organizational culture of early childhood teachers and the overall type of conflict management. The overall cooperative organizational culture had the strongest relationship, particularly with the integrated type of conflict management. The following appeared in the order of compromise, consideration, and domination. On the other hand, there was no relationship with the avoidance type. Second, regarding the sub-factor of conflict management type that affects the cooperative organizational culture of early childhood teachers, the integrated type has the strongest influence, followed by the caring type. In the sub-factor of cooperative organizational culture, the integrated type has the strongest influence on the cooperative leadership, followed by the caring type. The integrated type had the greatest influence on teacher cooperation, peer support, and learning companion.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.393-403
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation on the relationship between economic level, self-esteem and teaching efficacy first, and then to investigate the mediating effects of self-esteem on the relationship between economic level and teaching efficacy. The subjects of this study were 457 students who attend two collages in Incheon and all of them were majoring in early childhood education. The collected data were analyzed through SPSS Window program. Correlation analysis and Multiple regression analysis were conducted. Results showed the there were correlation among economic level, self-esteem and teaching efficacy. Also there were mediating effects of self-esteem on the relationship between economic level and personal teaching efficacy. As a whole the result of this study showed the teaching efficacy of early childhood preservice teacher were more influenced by self-esteem than by economic level. The implication of the result were discussed with the necessity of curriculum development to improve the student's self-esteem.

• (The) Research of the performance art and culture
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• no.41
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• pp.69-92
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• 2020

This study describes the impact of early childhood teacher's artistic competence on art education pedagogy and improved curriculum design. Furthermore, the effect of drama as a way of improving early childhood teacher's artistic competence is explained. Many researchers have mentioned that early childhood is a period of sensitivity and potential. Therefore, it will be helpful if children meet a teacher who understands them and inspires their innate artistic sense at a level of their eyes. It explained which aspect of artistic competence should be focused for the teacher training education. There are many approaches to develop early childhood teachers' artistic competence. Adopting drama is one of them. The strong points of drama to improve their artistic competence are as follows. Firstly, human's movement and voice are the main artistic channel in drama. What we are doing in daily life is found are drama world. It means if early childhood teachers experience drama activity, they will feel more comfortable and intimate with it. In addition, early childhood teachers tend to be familiar with dramatic play, so they can more easily access to drama world. Secondly, drama will be helpful to understand different feelings and to broaden and deepen understandings of others' standpoints. For early childhood teachers, drama activity will be helpful to understand how dramatic art form works and to lead children's play in diversified and sincere way. In addition, drama activity will be useful to build horizontal and democratic relationships between children and the teacher. It is one of the main emphases of 2019 revised Nori national curriculum. To sum up, drama will be a excellent method to develop artistic competence for early childhood teachers. Thus, it is expected that They have more opportunities to experience drama as an art form.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.1905-1915
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• 2014

This study is to examine the effect of the thinking styles and character development efficacy of childhood educational teachers on their commitment to teaching with the intention of clarifying that these two factors of childhood educational teachers are important internal variables in enhancing their dedication to teaching, and to seek ways of finding thinking styles and character development efficacy appropriate for childhood educational teachers. Childhood educational teachers at nursing schools and kindergartens located in Daejeon, Chungnam, and Chungbuk were chosen as the study objects. The results are as follows: First, it turned out that childhood educational teachers's commitment to teaching was in close relation to their judicial, monarchy, totalitarian, internal, and liberal thinking styles. As for childhood educational teachers' character development efficacy, personal efficacy and dedication to teaching showed a high level of correlation. This indicates that as childhood educational teachers preferred certain thinking styles, their commitment to teaching also could be enhanced, and that as childhood educational teachers' personal efficacy was high, their commitment to teaching was enhanced as well. Second, as for the positive effect of childhood educational teachers' thinking styles and character development efficacy on their commitment to teaching, it turned out that such factors as judicial and internal thinking styles, common teacher efficacy, and personal teacher efficacy affected professional recognition, such factors as judicial, internal, conservative, liberal thinking styles and personal teacher efficacy influenced their affection for teaching, and such factors as legislative, monarchy, anarchic, and liberal thinking styles and personal teacher efficacy affected zeal.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.75-81
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• 2023

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of early childhood teachers' perception of young children's right and teachers' right on their implementation of respect for young children's right. For this, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 355 early childhood teachers working at early childhood education institutions in the Seoul metropolitan area. Collected data were analyzed with Pearson's correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 24.0. As a result, the higher the level of early childhood teachers' perception on young children's right and teachers' right, the higher the level of their implementation of respect for young children's right. In addition, early childhood teachers' perception of young children's right and teachers' right were found to be predictable variables on their implementation of respect for young children's right. Based on the results, we suggest a need to enhance early childhood teachers' perception not only on young children's right but also on teachers' right to enhance their implementation of respect for young children's right.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.513-518
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• 2024

This study was to investigate the relationship and impact the job autonomy, teaching creativity and play support competency of early childhood teachers. As the research subjects, 252 early childhood teachers in G City were randomly sampled, and a questionnaire survey was conducted. The collected data were subjected to Pearson's correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis through the SPSS 21.0 program. The results of this study showed a positive correlation between job autonomy, teaching creativity and play support competency of early childhood teachers, and job autonomy affect teaching creativity and play support competency. The results of this study are expected to reveal the impact of job autonomy on teaching creativity and play support competency, providing basic data for creating an environment to guarantee and the development of job training programs for early childhood teachers.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.143-164
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• 2014

This study aimed to find the effects of early childhood teachers of interpersonal relationship ability and ego-resiliency on psychological well-being. The Subjects, 243 early childhood teachers, answered the Interpersonal Relationship Ability Scale, Ego-Resiliency Scale, and Psychological Well-being Scale. The results were as follows; First, there were positive correlations between total and subscale scores of interpersonal relationship ability and psychological well-being of early childhood teachers. Also, there were positive correlations between the total and subscale scores of ego-resiliency and psychological well-being of early childhood teachers. Second, from multiple linear regression analyses of the variables, ego-resiliency had more significant influence on the psychological well-being of early childhood teachers than interpersonal relationship ability.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.311-329
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• 2015

This study examined the influences of children's playfulness and teacher-child interactions on their peer interactions, and investigated whether teacher-child interactions had any moderating effects upon the relation between child playfulness and peer interactions. The participants of this study were 240 children in fourth year classes in child care centers in Seoul and Gyoung-gi province and 24 of their teachers. In order to measure the research variables, the Korean version of PIPPS(Pen Interaction Peer Play Scale) by Choi and Shin(2008), the Children's Playfulness Scale(Barnett, 1991), and the modified version of the Caregiver Interaction Scale(Arnett, 1989) were used. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statics, Pearson's correlations, and hierarchical regression analysis. The results indicated that children's playfulness and teacher-child interactions had significant effects on their peer interactions. Especially, the teacher-child interactions were related to the play disruption and the play disconnection of peer interactions. In addition, teacher-child interactions moderated the effect of children's social spontaneity(children's playfulness) on their play disconnection(peer interactions). The results have some implications for the role of teacher-child interactions in peer play interactions and a range of prevention efforts.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.385-395
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to cultivate the attitudes of preservice early childhood teacher's commitment by analyzing the effects of education practicum, teacher efficacy, and emotional intelligence on teacher's education commitment and analyzing the relationship between them. To this purpose, a total of 150 questionnaires were distributed to 75 preservice early childhood teachers of the metropolitan area from November 1, 2018 to March 2019. The results of the study were as follows: First, education commitment of preservice early childhood teachers was positively correlated with teachers' efficacy, emotional intelligence, and education practicum experiences. Second, education commitment increased when the emotional intelligence increased before the education practicum experience, and education commitment increased when the teacher's efficacy increased after education practicum experience. In light of these, It suggests that programs or content education that can strengthen emotional intelligence are effective before education practicum. and that programs or content education that enhance teacher efficacy capacity are more effective after education practicum.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.183-202
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to examine structural relationships among directors' coaching leadership, organizational culture, early childhood teachers' empowerment, teacher-efficacy and job satisfaction. The data were collected from 575 early childhood teachers and analyzed with Pearson's correlation and structural equation modelling analysis. The results were as follows: first, directors' coaching leadership was found to have a direct effect on early childhood teachers' job satisfaction and an indirect effect through organizational culture, teachers'empowerment and teacher-efficacy. Second, organizational culture was found to have a direct effect on early childhood teachers' job satisfaction and an indirect effect through teacher-efficacy. Third, early childhood teachers' empowerment was found to have a direct effect on job satisfaction and an indirect effect through teacher-efficacy. Fourth, teachers' teacher efficacy was found to have a direct effect on job satisfaction. Additionally, directors'coaching leadership was found to be the most important variable predicting early childhood teachers' job satisfaction. These results suggest that improving directors'coaching readership, organizational culture, teachers' empowerment, teacher-efficacy could help facilitate early childhood teachers'job satisfaction.