• 대한가정학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.185-192
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• 1982

The purpose of this study was to examine preschool children's participation tendency and use of play materials in imaginative play. The subjects for the study included 22 boys and girls in nursery school. These children were observed for 110-3-minutes of play behavior during free play at nursery school, especially in block area and housekeeping area. The results obtained from the study were as follows. 1. There was a significant association between paricipation tendency in imaginative play and age or sex, Boys engaged in more social imaginative play than girls, and four-year-olds engaged in more social imaginative play than three-year-olds. 2. There was sex difference in the content of imaginative play and use of play materials. That is, boys usually chose masculine kinds of toys such as block, cars, trucks, and manipulative materials. And the boys' common fantasies were about car, robert and fighting. Girls usually chose play dough, kitchen sets, and blocks and there were maines stories of family life and cooking. 3. Children preferred to use more realistic toys in imaginative plays and there were few cases of imaginative plays with no materials.

• 아동학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.33-51
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• 1992

The purpose of this study was to investigate activities of kindergarteners in the mathematics corner. The study included an analysis of children's interactions with mathematics materials and of children's peer interactions during mathematics activities. The subjects were 47 children aged three to four and 72 children aged four to five from four classes of two kindergartens in Kwangju. Children's math activities during free play sessions were observed and audiotaped. The data were coded by the categories of children's peer interactions and types of mathematics manipulations. The characteristics of children's peer interactions and materials frequently selected by the subjects were identified. The results indicated that (1) most of the math materials were for passive manipulation that require children to respond according to predetermined conditions like the rules of games, but (2) the materials that children liked to play with were active manipulative materials that require diversity and flexibility of children's thinking and allow several choices for solutions, and (3) children's peer interactions during math activities were categorized into unilateral and reciprocal/collaborative peer interaction type.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.143-152
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• 1985

This study intends to investigate preschool-sibling's spontaneous imitation during their free-plays through the observation of 41 pairs of siblings aged from 1 to seven years. RESULTS : 1. Sibling's imitation showed in all subjects and had various distribution according to sibling's personalities. 2. Because of sibling's several facts. Their imitation showed differently. 1) Imitation appeared to decline to decline as children grew older. Imitation showed most frequently at the age of 2 years, and decreased after that. 2) Due to the effect of birth-order, the younger one showed his imitation approximately 4.3 times more than the elder one. 3) The effect of sex-composition seemed to coincide with the sex-typing hypothesis rather than the like-sex hypothesis. 4) Boy's imitation showed more frequently than girl's, but the difference was not so significant to be noticed. 3. In siblings, physical imitation was more frequent than verbal imitation, but it was reversed in peer's imitation. 4. The play-situation in which sibling's imitation showed mostly differed from that of Peer's imitation. That is, sibling's imitation appeared in solitary play but peers imitation did appear in associate play.

• 아동학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.47-56
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• 1997

This study investigated the agreement between 3 assessments of preschoolers' friendship: peer nominations, teacher nominations, and behavioral observations. The relationship between friendship, social status, social competence, and play behaviors was also investigated. The subjects were 44 5-year-olds. Teachers were asked to rate the children's social competence; play behaviors were observed during free play time. The results indicated high agreement between the 3 assessments. Popular children were more likely to have friends than other social status groups. Children without friends were more hesitant than children with friends. Children with friends were more accepted by peers and engaged in cooperative social play more than children without friends.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.57-81
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• 2016

본 연구의 목적은 자유선택활동 시 놀이 인원수 제한규칙에 따른 유아의 놀이를 알아보는 것이며, 본 연구결과가 자유선택활동 운영 개선에 기여할 것으로 기대된다. 연구참여자는 사립유치원 4세 학급 유아 25명과 담임교사와 공동연구자인 도움교수였다. 2014년 7월부터 10월까지 유아 관찰, 유아 인터뷰, 교사의 반성적 저널쓰기를 통해 자료를 수집하였다. 연구 결과, 유아들은 영역 선택을 표시하기 위해 사용하는 이름표에 대한 스트레스를 받고 서로 간의 과도한 경쟁을 하고 있었으며 규칙을 위반하고 있었다. 이를 통해 연구자들은 인원수 제한규칙이 유아의 도덕성 발달 제한, 사회정서발달 저해와 안전사고 위험, 자유선택 행동 저해 등의 역기능이 있음을 발견하였다. 이러한 규칙의 역기능을 인식한 연구자는 인원수 제한규칙을 해제함으로써 유아의 변화를 살펴보았고, 그 결과 공간 놀이 갈등 조절에서 유아의 자율성이 증진되었으며, 자유선택활동 시 교사의 역할과 운영방법에도 변화를 가져왔다. 연구결과에 기초하여 자유선택활동의 다양한 제한규칙의 필요성과 바람직한 규칙 적용에 대해 논의하였다.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.407-436
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• 2013

이 연구는 놀이 참여자들의 놀이 특징에 대한 이해를 바탕으로 놀이 틀 유지와 변화를 위한 유아의 또래관계 전략을 살피고 그 의미를 이해하기 위하여 실증적 방식을 지양하고 유아의 생활세계인 어린이집의 만 5세반 자유놀이 시간을 참여관찰 하였다. 이를 위해 2012년 3월부터 10월까지 매주 1-2회에 걸쳐 현장을 방문하였으며, 수집된 자료는 연구자의 관찰기록, 참여자 면담, 참여자 기록물 등이다. 연구결과, 유아는 놀이 틀 유지를 위해 '거절하기', '무력화시키기', '동의적 해석해주기', '놀이의 규칙 바꾸기'와 같은 전략을, 놀이 틀 변화를 위해 '이르기', '내편으로 만들기', '제 3자 받아들이기'와 같은 전략을 사용하였다. 이와 같은 놀이 틀 유지를 위한 유아의 전략들은 유아가 선택과 배제의 변증법과 경계의 떨림이라는 삶의 의미를 경험하는 존재임을 드러내었다. 이 연구는 놀이 틀 유지와 변화를 위한 유아의 구체적인 노력을 드러냄으로써 그동안 부정적인 것으로 인식되어 오던 '사회적 배척'에 대해 유아의 관점에서 이해할 수 있는 시사점을 제공한다. 또한 관련 현장의 교사들이 유아의 또래관계에 개입할 때 유아의 관점을 이해하고 보다 구체적인 개입을 할 수 있도록 도울 수 있을 것이다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.11-25
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• 1989

The purpose of the present research was to study developmental trends in and relationships between recall, organizational strategy, and metamemory in young children. The subjects were 84 children, 14 boys and 14 girls at each age level, 4, 6, and 8. Two tasks (memory task & metamemory task) were used to assess children's recall, organizational strategy, and metamemory based on Sodian et al.(1986). All subjects were randomly assigned either to the play-and-remember condition or to the sort-and-remember condition. The two tasks were administered to children individually with the memory task followed by the metamemory task. The data were analysed by the statistical methods of two-way ANOVA, Student-Newman-Keuls post hoc test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson's correlation coefficient and Kendall's Tau. Children's recall (free, conceptually-cued, and perceptually-cued) level increased with age. There were significant experimental condition differences in free recall and conceptually-cued recall, but not in perceptually-cued recall. Children's organizational strategy showed differential developmental trends by experimental condition. Use of conceptual strategy at both encoding and retrieval increased with age in both experimental conditions. Use of perceptual strategy (PS) at encoding showed an inverted-U age effect in the play-and-remember condition, but PS decreased linearly with age in the sort-and-remember condition. There were significant age differences in metamemory, and there were significant correlations between recall and organizational strategy.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.485-493
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• 2019

본 연구는 유치원의 자유놀이 제한 규칙에 대한 교사의 인식을 알아봄으로써 유치원 자유놀이 운영을 위한 기초적인 정보를 얻을 목적으로 수행되었다. 이를 위하여 J 지역에 근무하는 유치원 교사 200명을 대상으로 설문 조사를 시행하였다. 연구 도구는 학급 내 자유놀이에 대한 제한 규칙에 관한 교사의 인식을 묻는 설문지였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 교사는 흥미영역 중 미술영역에 대한 제한 규칙의 필요성을 가장 높게 인식하였다. 둘째, 교사는 세 가지 유형의 제한 규칙 중 인원수 제한 규칙의 필요성을 가장 높게 인식하였다. 셋째, 제한 규칙의 필요 이유에 대한 교사 인식은 다음과 같았다. 인원수 제한 규칙 필요 이유는 일부 영역으로 쏠리는 현상을 예방하기 위해서였다. 시간 제한 규칙 필요 이유는 다양한 흥미영역에서 놀이하도록 지도하는 것이 교육적이라고 생각하기 때문이었다. 공간 제한 규칙 필요 이유는 각 흥미영역 고유의 교육목표를 확실히 할 수 있기 때문이었다. 유아의 놀이 권리와 연계하여 자유놀이 제한 규칙의 의미와 필요성을 논의하였다.

• 아동학회지
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• 제1권
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• pp.15-27
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• 1980

PURPOSE This study was intended to analyze the play-form of normal preschool children as related to age, sex, educational experience and social maturity. METHOD 1. Subjects The subjects of this study were eighty seven 3-, 4- and 5-year-old preschool children attending educational institutions in Seoul. 2. Instruments The instruments used in this study consisted of twenty one-minute observations in 5 preschool settings and a questionnaire designed to measure the children's social maturity filled in by their parents. The observations provided information on the children's free play, that is 1) play-form: solitary, parallel and group play 2) use/non-use of toys 3) behavior: play, activity, doing nothing, onlooking 4) stationary/moving dimensions 5) play group size The questionnaire measured such factors as communication, socialization, locomotion, self-help and self-direction. 3. Data Analysis Data analysis consisted of percentage and Chi square. RESULTS 1. Play-Form The relationship between age and play-form proved to be significant at the .05 level. That is, in both boys and girls, solitary play decreased with age and group play increased with age while parallel play maintained a similar position. The relationship between sex and play-form proved to be significant at the .05 level in 3-& 4-year-old children, but not significant in 5-year-old children. That is, in their $3^{rd}$ year boys engage in the solitary play more than girls and in their $4^{th}$ year boys engage in more group play than girls. 2. Toys Without differentiation of sex and age, cases of using toys in play exceed those cases where toys were not used. 3. Behavior The relationship between age and behavior proved to be significant at the .05 level in both boys and girls. That is, with increase of age, play decreased and activity increased in boys while play increased and doing nothing decreased in girls. 4. Moving Status Totally, moving occurred more frequently in play than stationary status. Moving proved not to have a significant relationship with age, but it did Navel a significant relationship with sex at the .05 level. That is, moving tended to increase with the increase in age in both boys and girls, but not at a significant level. Boys moved significantly more than girls in all three age levels. 5. The Relationship between Educational Experience and Play-Form There was a tendency for children with longer preschool experience to engage in less solitary play and more group play than children who had less than one semester of preschool experience, but this difference was not statistically significant. 6. The Relationship between Social Maturity and Play-Form The high social maturity group engaged in less solitary play and more group play than the low social maturity group, but this was not a statistically significant difference. 7. Play Group Size Play group size was 2~10 children, but the majority of play groups consisted of 2~3 children. There was a tendency for play groups composed of 2 children to decrease with age and play groups composed of 3 children to increase with age. No significant difference was found between the sexes in play group size.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.486-494
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• 2006

Purpose: This study was done to analyze children's play during hospitalization. Method: Data were collected from 36 play situations of hospitalized children, ages 2 to 6, hospitalized at 4 general hospitals, one in each city, Seoul, Suwon, Daejeon and Daegu. All observations were made in pediatric units during free-play periods. Each child was observed for 5 minutes at each observation and observed three times at each play session. Results: Of the children, 83.3% played on the bed. Play partners were mainly mothers. While 75.0% of children actively took part in play activity and 70.0% played with joy, 63.9% of play partners were more passive in the play. The most frequent play material was a small toy. The level of play was early stage of social and cognitive play, and dramatic play was observed in a few children over the age of 3 years. The play activities were conversional play, reflections of therapeutic procedures, imagination, and exploratory play. In the conversional play, children converted hospital equipments into play materials. Conclusion: It is recommended that health care team members should pay attention and actively participate in play of hospitalized children in order to help them have some control over the stress of the situation.