유아교사의 유아 본성에 대한 이미지 분석 = The Analysis of an Image on the Nature of Young Children Among Early Childhood Teachers

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study explored image types of various natures and examined their meaning through image analysis of infant nature by early childhood teachers. To this end, the research subjects were sampled randomly and 250 early childhood teachers were selected. The researcher collected materials after making a questionnaire available for writing up the early childhood teachers’ image on the nature of young children and the explanation of an image. In analyzing the major research results, the images concerning the nature of young children by early childhood teachers appeared to be in the order of the evolutionary nature, the creative nature, the exploratory nature, the instinctive nature, the unknown nature, and the ambivalent nature. The evolutionary nature made abundant use of image of seeds and sprouts; drawing paper and blank for creative nature; an infant and question for the exploratory nature; love and the stars for the instinctive nature; rainbows and water for the unknown nature; and angels and demons and double-sided colored paper for the ambivalent nature. Through the results of this study, after examining the meaning of infant nature by each type of image’s characteristics based on early childhood education, implications were derived for specific practical measures.