This study proposed to use teacher-education for early childhood teachers` science education and to verified through the changes in the changes in the reflective thinking toward science teaching. To do this three preschool teachers participated in thi...
This study proposed to use teacher-education for early childhood teachers` science education and to verified through the changes in the changes in the reflective thinking toward science teaching. To do this three preschool teachers participated in this study to verify the effectiveness. We have collected data especially for the qualitative analysis, categorized them, and found out the themes of each areas through the content and meaning analysis methods. The main results of this study are categorized into the following research assignments. First, the program for teacher training effectively improved the teachers` reflective thinking attitude on science education. The frequency of teacher training made a distinctive changes in reflective thinking. So the stages of reflective thinking changed from the daybook or report approach journals to the focused journals. Second, how this changes in reflective thinking attitude affect the actual science teaching situation can be seen in the different stages of the program-in the initial stage, in the middle stage, in the later stage.