유아교사의 놀이지원 관련 연구동향 : 한국학술지인용색인(KCI)에 등재된 논문을 대상으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand how teachers' interest in and approach to play support has changed by analyzing recent domestic research trends on early childhood teachers' play support. For this purpose, 114 studies related to early childhood teachers' play support published in domestic academic journals from 1991 to 2023 were selected. For the selected papers, frequencies and percentages were calculated according to the research period, research subjects, research methods, and research topics according to the analysis criteria established by the researcher based on related literature. The analysis results are as follows. First, research on teachers' play support continues to increase, and in particular, it has rapidly increased since 2018, with research on teachers' play support being most actively conducted between 2021 and 2023. The research topics were 'implementation and reality', followed by 'related variables and others', 'play support competency', 'awareness and understanding', 'needs and methods search' and 'development'. The most common research topic was ‘implementation and reality.’ The results of this study were discussed for each analysis category and ways to revitalize teachers' play support research for young children were discussed.