• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.201-230
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to develop a mentoring program to assist freshmen who are part of the early childhood education in three year college in order to help them adjust to the major. Focus group interviews were conducted to find the difficulties that freshmen have experienced in adapting to their major. Afterward, the data was collected through brainstorming and questionnaires to find the solutions to their problems. The results showed that the troubles freshmen experienced were grouped into intrapersonal, interpersonal, and support system problems. In order to help these freshmen, it is needed to reduce their difficulties and to offer an informational guide which consist of the contents to adapt them to their college life. The mentoring program for freshmen of the early childhood education In three year college have consisted of the guides helping the troubles of adaptation to their major and the information needed to freshmen. The program has 8 sessions and it's contents were categorized into a time management, an academic activity, a social relationship development, a career and employment preparation and an extracurricular activity.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.263-269
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• 2022

This study is to propose a FOCUS Teaching & Learning model to educate pre-service early childhood teachers and in the era of convergence and integration and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In an era where the use of digital technology is maximized due to COVID-19, boundaries of each fields are blurred and convergence is emphasized, a teaching and learning model is needed to strengthen capabilities of freshmen at colleges that train specialists. This study proposes ways to vitalize ICT education in early childhood education and proposes an integrated teaching and learning model. Through this model, pre-service early childhood teachers will be able to enhance their digital capabilities and contribute to the field of early childhood education by producing video content, activities and teaching aids to be provided to early childhood education institutions. In addition, the model can be applied to areas other than early childhood education to improve digital capabilities through video production and utilization.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.649-664
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the emotional intelligence of preservice early childhood teachers on their self-concept and self-efficacy in an attempt to provide some information on the development of the emotional intelligence of preservice early childhood teachers. The subjects in this study were the freshmen, sophomores and juniors who were in the departments of early childhood education in private colleges and universities in Chungcheong, Kyonggi, Seoul, in Korea. After a survey was conducted, the following findings were given: First, the juniors had the best self-concept of the others, and the freshmen were ahead of the others in self-efficacy. The university students had a better self-concept than the college students. Second, emotional intelligence had a statistically significant positive correlation to self-concept and self-efficacy. Third, all the sub-factors of emotional intelligence exerted a statistically significant positive influence on self-concept. Among the sub-factors of emotional intelligence, emotional regulation and emotional utilization exerted a statistically significant positive influence on self-efficacy. The findings of the study illustrated that the preservice early childhood teachers had a better self-concept and a better self-efficacy when they were better at emotional intelligence.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.185-197
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• 2019

This study intended to analyze the early childhood education freshmen's academic interest. For this study relationship among academic self-efficacy, character strength and learning motivation. The study subjects were 144 early childhood education freshmen at K-college in Deagu. They answered the survey regarding academic self-efficacy scale, VIA-IS(Values in action inventory of strength) short form scale, school learning motivation scale. The collected data were analyzed by frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 18.0 program. The study finding are as follows. First, the average of academic self-efficacy, character strength and learning motivation of students were near at the intermediate-level. Second, academic self-efficacy, character strength and learning motivation were significantly positive correlated. Third, when examining the relative effect of early childhood education freshmen's academic self-efficacy and character strength on learning motivation, self regulatory efficacy among the sub-factors for academic self-efficacy and courage among the sub-factors for character strengths.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.988-1003
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• 2013

This research was conducted to investigate the perception of pre-service early childhood teachers regarding the importance of the rights of young children and necessity of the education of the rights. The survey covered 525 students attending six three-year-course colleges in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Chungcheong-do, Chonra-do, Gyeongsang-do, and Jeju-do, Korea. They were in their freshmen, sophomore, and junior year majoring in early childhood education. Firstly, the research found that pre-service early childhood teachers' awareness towards the importance children's rights was relatively high. The higher grade they were, the better perception for the importance of the rights of young children they had. Additionally, the teachers who were registered for courses related to the rights of young children understood the importance of children's rights especially well. Secondly, pre-service early childhood teachers highly recognized the necessity of education for the rights of young children. Compared to the freshmen and sophomores, the juniors had higher awareness levels about the necessity of early childhood education rights. On the other hand, being in a related course or not made no difference in their perception for the necessity of early childhood education rights. Lastly, pre-service childhood teachers had greater concern for the necessity of education rights rather than the importance of the rights of young children.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.85-100
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• 2019

Objective: The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of gratitude enhancement program for freshman on pre-service early childhood teacher's gratitude disposition, empathic ability, and department satisfaction. Methods: 55 freshmen majoring in early childhood education were participated in this study. Twenty-eight of them were classified as an experimental group and made to go through gratitude enhancement program for freshman. Twenty-seven of them were classified as a control group. The gratitude enhancement program for freshman consisted of lectures on cognitive, affective and behavioral gratitude factors. To verify the effect of this program, the tests on gratitude disposition, empathic ability, and department satisfaction were carried out and the collected data were analyzed by ANCOVA. Results: The result of this study was that the gratitude enhancement program was effective for improving gratitude disposition, empathic ability, and department satisfaction of pre-service early childhood teachers. Conclusion/Implications: This study illustrated the need of gratitude enhancement program and its methodologies for pre-service early childhood teacher's college adjustment and persistence by improving gratitude disposition, empathic ability, and department satisfaction.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.15-27
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to develop an indicator of core competency of freshmen of an Institute of Science & Technology (IST). Through the document analysis and the expert survey, core competency indicators that include 5 core competencies and 15 sub-competencies (a total of 48 items) were developed. Then content validity was examined by experts in measurement and statistics and secondary education. Also, by using students' responses, reliability was tested with Cronbach's alpha and construct validity were tested through confirmatory factor analysis. Results suggest that the core competency indicator is reliable and valid in measuring core competencies of freshmen students in an Institute of Science & Technology. Discussions were provided in terms of improving student admission processes.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.131-139
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• 2020

This study intended to analyze the early childhood education freshmen's academic interest. For this study relationship pre-service early childhood teacher's playfulness and play teaching efficacy. The study subjects were 145 early childhood education students in third grade at K-college in Deagu. They answered the survey regarding playfulness scale and play teaching efficacy scale. The collected data were analyzed by frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 18.0 program. The study finding are as follows. First, the average of playfulness and play teaching efficacy were near at the intermediate-level. Second, playfulness and play teaching efficacy were significantly correlated. Third, when examining the relative effect of pre-service early childhood teacher's playfulness on play teaching efficacy, cheerfulness and improvisation is influential factor in play teaching efficacy.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.67-92
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• 2011

The meaning of the mentee's experiences who participated in the mentoring program for freshmen of department of early childhood education The purpose of this study was to find the mentee's experiences and the meaning of mentee's experiences who participated in a mentoring program. The participants were 13 freshmen of early childhood education department in a three-year junior college. The data was collected through journal, open questionnaire, interview from March 21st to September 9th in 2010. The data was analyzed by segmenting, primary coding and depths coding. At the first session the mentees experienced complicated feelings, expectation of relationships with their mentors and acquired a lot of information from the mentoring program. Through the whole program mentees learned and executed many things: a time management, a good presentation skill, a reference searching way, preparation for exam, and career management. However, they felt sorry for that there was not informal meeting with their mentors. They thought the experience lucky, which is very difficult to have. So they want to give the experience back to their mentors and future mentees. They suggested advanced mentoring program based on their experiences as well.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.329-340
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• 2022

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of teaching profession class using gamification on the academic self-efficacy and learning flow of pre-service early childhood teachers. 75 freshmen in the 2022 Early Childhood Education Department at A University located in Gyeonggi were participated and experienced 8 gamification-using classes over 12 weeks of 1 st semester. To examine the effectiveness of the class using gamification on academic self-efficacy and learning flow, a paired t-test for the pre-post test was conducted by analyzing the data of 65 students who faithfully answered both tests. Results of this study illustrated teaching profession class using gamification significantly improved the academic self-efficacy and its sub-factor, confidence of pre-service early childhood teachers, moreover, it also had a positive effect on learning flow and its sub-factor, cognitive learning flow of them. This study proved the effectiveness of the gamification-using class and provided subsequent studies for improving the quality of the gamification-using class.