유치원 유아들의 실외놀이에 관한 문화 기술적 연구 = A Study on Outdoor Plays of Five - Year - Old Kindergarten Children

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This dissertation aims to investigate the significances of outdoor plays in kindergarten children by describing and interpreting how young children experience outdoor plays. Consequently, it was revealed that young children were likely to give the following significances to their outdoor plays. Firstly, it was observed that young children showed solidarity in their social interactions of outdoor plays. In outdoor space they tended to emphasize the similarity among peers and to form peer relations through various aspects of play such as occupying play equipments, playing game together, and playing with each other with changing their space. In addition, they settled their conflicts through comparing their ages, deciding the order of playing, coping with situations, encouraging their peer competence, using play equipments, and finally came to form a peer group with bonding. Secondly, it was understood that through the imaginative play theme and its process, young children give some significances to their outdoor plays. Young children were revealed to show the fantasy plays which represent TV animation, dramatic plays which can be experienced in young children`s realities through play equipments, and imaginative plays about natural world. Thirdly, it was suggested that in teaching methods outdoor plays enable young children to show their new abilities in the face of new outside space. That is to say, it was revealed that outdoor plays provided young children with diverse opportunities to construct their experiences with flexibility through the spatial context of inside and outside the classroom. Some young children who used to be shy in the classroom now demonstrated their potential ability fully in outdoor plays.