만 1세 영아반 보육교사의 행복감 경험에 대한 탐구

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to provide the necessary educational environment for infant teacher by exploring the experience of happiness felt by childcare teachers while performing role in a 1-year-old infant class.
 Methods The participant in this study is teacher H, who is in charge of team teaching in the 1-year-old class at a daycare center located in K-si, Gyeonggi-do. The research data was collected from transcripts of a total of three in-depth interviews conducted from April 3 to June 2, 2023, and analyzed qualitatively by coding and categorizing key words.
 Results The happiness that a 1-year-old childcare teacher feels while performing role is as follows. First, it was found that daycare teachers in one-year-old infant classes felt happy due to the realization of their expertise, so-cial recognition, and opportunities for self-development. Second, it was found that daycare teachers in the 1-year-old infant class felt happy while seeing the infant adapt, understanding the infant's temperament and characteristics, and experiencing the infant's change and growth. Third, the one-year-old child care teacher felt happy due to the sense of homogeneity and solidarity with her fellow teachers, such as cooperation in work and similar experience and age. Fourth, it was found that daycare teachers in the 1-year-old infant class felt happy as she cooperated with parents as childcare partners, receiving support and encouragement through smooth communication with parents and seeing bright facial expressions.
 Conclusions The 1-year-old child care teacher became the driving force in performing his role due to the happi-ness she felt for herself, the infant, fellow teachers, and parents while running the child care program. Therefore, it is necessary to create a childcare environment so that communication and support among members can con-tinue to occur at the institutional and policy level so that childcare teachers in infant classes can perform their roles with a sense of happiness.