Abstract

본 연구는 Nobak과 Gowin(1984)이 고안한 개념도를 사용하여 유아교사의 유아 영재교육에 대한 개념과 개념의 수준을 분석하고자 하였으며 다음과 같은 연구문제를 설정하였다. 첫째, 유아교사의 개념도에 나타난 유아 영재교육에 대한 개념의 내용은 어떠한가? 둘째, 유아교사의 개념도에 나타난 유아 영재교육에 대한 개념의 수준은 어떠한가? 이를 위해 부산광역시 유아교육기관에 재직 중인 유아교사 138명을 대상으로 소그룹 면담을 통해 유아 영재교육에 대한 개념도를 작성하도록 하고 이를 분석하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 유아교사의 유아 영재교육에 대한 상위개념은 총 16개의 범주로 도출되었다. 둘째, 종속개념의 수는 영재 교육방법이 가장 많았으며 특성점수는 영재 교육방법, 영재의 인지적 특성, 영재 교육과정 영역 순으로 높게 나타났다. 셋째, 밀도는 0.75-9.33이며 평균은 2.05로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과는 유아 영재교육에 대한 심층적 이해를 도울 수 있는 교사교육이 필요함을 시사한다.The purpose of this study was to examine early childhood teachers’ knowledge and the level of their knowledge on the contents of gifted young children education. Following questions are developed in order to perform this study. 1. How is the knowledge of early childhood teachers about gifted young children education? 2. How is the level of knowledge of early childhood teachers about gifted young children education? The subjects were 138 early childhood teachers and they were asked to draw a concept map. The findings of the study were as follows: First, there were 16 superordinate concepts of the gifted young children education for early childhood teachers. Second, the highest subcategory was ‘gifted teaching methods’, followed by ‘cognitive characteristics of the gifted children’ and ‘gifted education curriculum’, and the highest specificity measure was ‘gifted teaching methods’ followed by ‘cognitive characteristics of the gifted children’ and ‘gifted education curriculum’. Third, The density degree ranged between 0.75-9.33 and the mean was 2.05. The results were discussed in relation to implications for early childhood teacher education.

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