Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to explore the direction of the competency of early childhood teachers by examining factors affecting the overall social perception and early childhood teacher competency of daycare center teacher competency, kindergarten teacher competency, and early childhood teacher competency through big data analysis.
 Methods The purposes of this study were to specify variables related to convergence competency, and to analyze the structural relationships among them. The purposes of this study were to specify variables related to convergence competency, and to analyze the structural relationships among them. To this end, using the search terms for daycare center teacher competency, kindergarten teacher competency, and early childhood teacher competency, Naver blog, cafe, news, intellectual, academic information, web information and Daum blog, cafe, news, web information, Google news, Facebook and web documents were collected and analyzed. The collected data went through the first and second refining processes, and 50 major words were selected based on word frequency and semantic network analysis was performed.
 Results First, as a result of frequency analysis of keywords related to childcare center teacher competency, education showed the highest frequency, followed by childcare teachers, teachers, daycare centers, and support. As a result of centrality was education, and keyword with the highest mediation centrality was teacher. Second, as a result of frequency analysis of keywords related to kindertarten teacher compotencey, teachers showed the highest frequency, folowed by training, kindergarten, and education. As a result of centrality analysis, the keyworld with the highest connection centrality, proximity centrality, and mediation centrality was teacher. Third, as a result of frequency analysis of keywords related to the competency of early childhood teachers, education showed the highest frequency, followed by research, trainging, kindergarten, and teachers. As a result of the centrality analysis, the keyword with the highest connection centrality was pre-kindergarten teacher, and the keywrod with the highest proximity centrality and mediation centrality was research.
 Conclusions Through big data analysis, there was no difference in the perception of daycare center teachers and kindergarten teacher’s competency. It can be seen that the expectations for the role as a researcher are high.

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