영유아교육기관 교사의 놀이신념과 교수창의성이 놀이지원 역량에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of play beliefs and teaching creativity of teachers at early childhood educational institutions on play support competency.
 Methods The subjects of this study were 287 teachers at day care centers and kindergartens in Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do. The analysis method was Person's product-moment correlation using SPSS 23 program to examine the relationship between teacher's play belief, teaching creativity, and play support competency, and multiple regression analysis was conducted to verify the influence of teacher's play belief and teaching creativity on play support competency.
 Results As a result of data analysis, first, there was a positive correlation between teachers' play beliefs, teaching creativity, and play support competency. Second, among the sub-variables of play support competency, teacher's teaching creativity showed higher explanatory power in internal motivation, play goal, play design, and play operation, and teacher's play belief showed higher explanatory power in teacher's emotion and attitude, play support improvement effort, knowledge, play environment creation, and infant evaluation.
 Conclusions The results of this study are significant in that it reminded the importance of teachers' play beliefs, teaching creativity, and play support capabilities in order for play-based education and childcare courses to be well realized in early childhood education institutions, and that teachers' play beliefs and teaching creativity should be promoted in order to enhance teachers' play support capabilities.