신규위탁 원장의 국공립어린이집 운영에서의 공공성 저해 요인 탐색

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to find out the motivation and background for consignment support of new entrusted public child care center to support consignment, and to exploration of disturbance factors of publicness in the new entrusteded directors’s public child care centers management. Methods The participants in this study were three directors who entrusted a new public child care center in H-si, Gyeonggi-do. Data were collected through a total of three sessions of in-depth interviews, data on the experi-ences of in the new entrusteded directors’s were transcribed, read repeatedly, extracted with meaningful key-words, and analyzed qualitatively to derive research results. Results The results of this study are as follows. First, the motivation and background of the director of the new entrusted public child care center for fostering support was found to be support for entrustment to a stable public child care center due to changes in child care policy and anxiety about operating private daycare centers. Second, the directors of a newly entrusted public child care center found that the factors disturbance the publicness of run-ning the child care center after being appointed include concerns about systematic management of the newly en-trusted public child care center, recruiting and managing teachers, difficulties for parents trying to resolve com-plaints, found that the factors disturbance the and difficulties responding to related organizations. Conclusions In order to ensure the publicness of the management of public child care centers, it is necessary to continuously investigate the factors disturbance that the director of a newly entrusted public child care centers finds difficult, establish a system and training course to provide systematic support from new entrustment. A edu-cation program for new directors should be developed to overcome the difficulties that new directors face when running a public child care center for the first time and to solve the problems that directors face.