• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.624-639
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• 2015

This study was conducted as experimental research for testing the effects of a brain dance group program for cultivating human qualities on pre early childhood care teachers' self acceptance and self control. The subjects of this study were 20 students in the course for early childhood care teacher certificate at N University in G City who consented to participate in this study. and they were divided randomly into an experimental group n=10) and a control group n=10). Data were collected before and after the application of the brain dance group program for cultivating human qualities. and collected data were analyzed using SPSS 14.0 for Windows through paired sample t-test. According to the results. the brain dance group program was found to have a positive effect on self acceptance and self control. and this suggests that brain dance is a useful tool for enhancing pre early childhood care teachers' self-acceptance and self control. The findings of this study are expected to be used as basic information for tertiary education institutions' development of strategies to raise brain dance experts and educational experts who are to develop various education programs using brain dance.