• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.305-316
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• 2022

This study attempted to analyze the jobs of early childhood special education teachers working in kindergarten's special classes using the DACUM technique. To this end, the DACUM Committee was formed with six early childhood special education teachers with extensive field experience. A total of six DACUM workshops were conducted to derive job definition, job descriptions, and job specifications. As a result, the job description of early childhood special education teachers consisted of 9 duties and 53 tasks, and the job specification consisted of 80 knowledge, 98 skills, and 22 attitudes. Early childhood special education teachers working in kindergarten's special classes were tasks differentiated from special education teachers working in elementary and secondary school including home-linked guidance, health and safety management, elementary school transfer guidance, environmental composition according to play topics, and indoor and outdoor play activities guidance. In the case of knowledge, the Special Education Act on the Disabled, etc. and knowledge on behavioral modification took precedence. Skill showed high frequency of observation-record, parental interviews and parental education skills. Attitudes as experts and administrators took priority. The results of this job analysis can help organize a curriculum to train early childhood special education teachers with high job competency in universities.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.467-474
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• 2017

The objective of this study is to analyze teachers' experience in the operation of outdoor play in an early childhood educational institute. For this purpose, the experience obtained in planning/operating the outdoor play in early childhood educational institutes, as well as the difficulties experienced in their operational process, were examined. The data was collected through interviews with eight early childhood teachers. In the results of the study, first, the teachers' perception of outdoor play was analyzed. The teachers considered outdoor play as meaningful in that the children could develop gross/fine-motor skills, have the chance to develop their sociality, relieve their stress, and also commune with nature through outdoor play. Second, regarding the plan/operation of the outdoor play activities, even though they aimed to provide the children with meaningful outdoor play activities through various materials and methods, most of the teachers could not put their original plans into practice, because of the numerous variables in the actual site. The teachers' difficulties included insufficient time, spatial limitations, and insufficient qualifications for play instruction.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.559-567
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• 2017

The aim of this study was to identify the interrelationship among the motives for selecting a teaching profession, job satisfaction, and the burnout of preschool teachers. In particular, this study examined the mediating effect of job satisfaction on the relationship between their motives and burnout. Data were collected from a group of 200 kindergarten and daycare center teachers working in Seoul, Choongnam and Kyeonggi Provinces. Data analysis was conducted using the PASW Statistics 18.0. The results are as follows. First, there were correlations among their motives for occupational choice, job satisfaction, and burnout. Their motives for selecting a teaching profession and job satisfaction had an influence on their burnout. Second, job satisfaction had a mediating effect on the relationship between motives for selecting a teaching profession and burnout of preschool teachers. These results suggest that improvements of their job satisfaction would help alleviate their burnout and mediate the influence of motives for selecting a teaching profession.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.193-216
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to analyze the mediating and moderating effect of directors' transformational leadership or transactional leadership between early childhood teachers' emotional labor and their burn out. The subjects were 211 early childhood teachers in the kindergartens and day care centers located in Kyonggido. 'Emotional Labor Assessment for Early Childhood Teachers', 'Assessment of Directors' Transformational Leadership or Transactional Leadership', and 'Early Childhood Teachers' Burn Out Assessment' were used in the collection of data. It used Pearson's correlation and Multi-Regression Analysis to analyze the data. The results of this study are as follows; first, there were positive correlations between early childhood teachers' emotional labor and their burn out. And, there was negative correlations between early childhood teachers' burn out and directors' transformational leadership or transactional leadership. Second, it was revealed that early childhood teachers' emotional labor was found as the positive predict variable for effecting their burn out. Third, it was revealed that directors transformational leadership or transactional leadership was found as the negative predict variable for effecting early childhood teachers' burn out. Fourth, directors' transformational leadership was a mediating effect of job environment dissatisfaction which is a sub area of burn out. In addition, directors' transactional leadership was a mediating effect of physical-emotional exhaustion which is a sub area of burn out.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.97-114
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• 2015

This study is aimed to determine whether there is any meaningful correlation between predictors and is intended to examine the relative influences that the pedagogical content knowledge of science teaching, scientific attitudes, science teaching intentions have on their science teaching efficacy. The results, showed that the childcare center teachers' pedagogical content knowledge of science teaching, scientific attitudes, science teaching intentions, and science teaching efficacy are all correlated with each other. The teachers' science teaching efficacy are predicted by their scientific attitudes, science teaching intentions, and pedagogical content knowledge of science teaching-learning methods. Specifically, for teachers of 0 to 2-year-olds, their science teaching efficacy is predicted by their science teaching intentions and scientific attitudes. For teachers of 3 to 5-year-olds, their science teaching is affected by their scientific attitudes and their pedagogical content knowledge.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.469-478
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• 2019

This study is an empirical survey of the job status and job satisfaction of early childhood teachers. The subjects of this study were teachers of early childhood education in (the province of) Chungcheongnam-do. The Early Childhood Education Institution was conducted with 255 teachers for teachers working in public day care centers, private day care centers, public kindergartens and private kindergartens. o carry out this study, we analyzed the collected questionnaires by using the SPSS statistical package program. T-test, χ²-validation and ANOVA analysis were used for this study, and Scheffé analysis was applied as a post hoc analysis. As a result of this study, job status was examined by type, age, educational attainment, and educational experience. The satisfaction level of educational institutions was highest in the national public day care centers, and the age was 50 years or older, and the education level was high in graduate school. In addition, the job satisfaction of early childhood teachers was significantly analyzed in relation to fellow teacher, relationship with the director, self-identity and teaching environment. Through this study, understanding the current job status and satisfaction of early childhood education teachers can be used as an important data in preparing a plan to raise their job performance and work efficiency.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.211-237
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to explore early childhood pre-service teachers' belief in homosexuality. This study applied the Q-method to investigate teachers'subjective awareness of homosexuality. Using an open questionnaire, we asked participants to describe how they think about homosexuality. Forty-five pre-service teachers were Q-sampled. Using the QUANL program, 45 statements were classified into 9 levels. Results revealed that image types of early childhood pre-service teachers can be classified into four distinguished categories: 1) type of respect: to regard gays and lesbians as normal people who love the same sex, 2) type of acknowledgment: to regard them as very unique people who attract people's attention, 3) type of relation-denying: to regard them as someone who were born totally differently, and 4) type of extremely denying-to regard them not being respected and disgusting. Most of the teachers seemed to have a tendency to acknowledge and respect individuals'sexual orientation. However, some pre-service teachers still have a negative attitude toward homosexuality. The significance of this study is to reveal the silenced issue, that is, sexual orientation in the field of early childhood multicultural education. Teachers can have a strong effect on young children's belief about sexual identity and sexual orientation. It would be important to look back on educators'perspective on homosexuality before suggesting the direction of multicultural education of young children related to the issue of sexual orientation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.527-537
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to investigate the actual use and satisfaction of early childhood teachers in the multimedia contents of the 5-year-old grade Nuri course teacher's guidebook and to provide basic data that should be developed in order to develop contents to help teaching and learning in the future. The subjects of this study were 144 early childhood teachers in kindergartens and day care centers in Busan, and collected data through questionnaires on recognition and implementation of flash among 5-year-old multimedia contents. The collected data were analyzed by frequency and percentage using SPSS 18.0 program. The results of the study were as follows: First, the early childhood teachers were satisfied with 5-year-old multimedia contents. Second, in the actual field, multimedia contents were used relatively low, and among them, the use of early childhood teachers for flash was more than half of all respondents. Third, the utilization and satisfaction according to the activity area and the life topic of the group were the most used in the fairy tale, the concurrent, the play and the story sharing, and it is mostly used in Korea and spring summer autumn winter by teachers.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.191-208
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among beginning early childhood teachers' stress coping strategies, role performance, and self leadership. The subjects in this study were 491 beginning early childhood teachers working in kindergarten and child care centers across the country. Stress coping strategies questionnaire(Chang-Soon Park, 2005) and role performance questionnaire(Bog-Mae Park, 2011), and self-leadership questionnaire(Dong-Hyen Park,2014) were used for this study. For the research analysis, frequency, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ coefficient, and Pearson's correlation were calculated and regression analysis were conducted. The results are as follows. Firstly, it was revealed that passive stress coping strategies does not have statistically meaningful influences on role performance, but active stress coping strategies have statistically meaningful positive influences on role performance. Also, 491 beginning early childhood teachers' active stress coping strategies have statistically meaningful positive influences on role performance through the mediation of self leadership. That is, the results explain that the higher the self-leadership of beginning early childhood teachers is, the higher the role performance that they have experienced is. It shows that beginning early childhood teachers'self leadership mediates partially between active stress coping strategies and role performance. Through this study, it is possible to provide basic information to configure the subject content that enhance their self-leadership and develop active stress coping attitudes in a curriculum for beginning early childhood teachers.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.467-474
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• 2016

This study is intended to look into the effects of children's problem behaviors on the coping strategies of teachers involved in early childhood education (ECE). To achieve this, a survey was administered to 90 teachers involved in ECE at kindergartens and child care centers in Daejeon Metropolitan City. The findings showed that these teachers have a professionalism and suitability for their career and excellent ability to cope with the problems of children in this age group. The results showed that competent teachers had less tendency to put children in the corner or give physical punishment to them than incompetent teachers. Competent teachers didn't use coping strategies involving scolding or saying no with a somewhat loud voice, but rather pointed to each word accurately or helped the children express their feelings and understand their situation. However, their coping strategies may not always be suitable in all situations. When necessary, saying no accurately with an accompanying warning is also important. Consequently, career and professional knowledge are important for teachers involved in ECE, and it would be useful to collate the diverse strategies that they use.