예비유아교사와 유아교사의 다문화 관련 국내 연구 동향

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the direction of multicultural research targeting preservice and early childhood teachers by analyzing domestic research trends on multi-cultures among such teachers. From 2012 to 2021, 243 domestic academic journals were analyzed depending on year, research method, and research topic. A total of 177 papers on multi-cultures targeting early childhood teachers were published during the 10 years since 2012, which is three times that of the 62 papers on preservice early childhood teachers. In 2013, multicultural research related to preservice and early childhood teachers accounted for the highest and lowest at 15.4% and 4.5% of the total research in 2017, respectively. Second, in the research trend by research method, the most frequent is quantitative research, with 48(70.6%) of preservice early childhood teachers and 103(55.4%) of early childhood teachers accounting for more than half of all research and qualitative research was used in the following order. Third, in the research trend by research topic, preservice early childhood teachers were the focus of the most research on teacher professionalism with 25(37.9%) studies, and early childhood teachers were the focus in the most research on educational practice with 59(32.6%) papers. Based on the results, the necessity of continuous multicultural research targeting preservice early childhood teachers and the study for various research methods were discussed.