유아의 발달에 적합한 유아 수업모형 탐색 연구 = DAP: Its Instruction Model for Early Childhood Professionals

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Realizing the foremost important factor in determining the quality of early childhood education is the teaching-learning method, in other words, improvement in instruction method. The purpose of this study is to develope a developmentally appropriate instruction process model that coincides with the purpose and spirit of the sixth national kindergarten curriculum in Korea. To achieve the purpose, the researcher firstly investigated the realities and problems of the current early childhood curriculum. Secondly, he examined the essential elements of a developmentally appropriate instruction model. Finally the researcher proposed stages of the DAP instruction model which consisted of 8 phases : (1) topic search, (2) brainstorming, (3) activity network organization, (4) activity feasibility examination, (5) activity objective description, (6) activity outlining, (7) activity lesson plan, (8) transforming activity lesson plan for developmental level, and its each characteristics. The level-oriented national kindergarten curriculum in Korea has been based rationales of the developmentally appropriate curriculum. Unfortunately, under the current conditions of early childhood fields, it’s hard to apply DAP instructiion model because of the inexperienced/not highly educated teachers who lack the inservice training of the DAP curriculum. As a solution to the problems, the researcher suggested more researches and discussions concerning not only the validity and practicality of this instruction model, but also development of various instruction models to enhance the quality of early childhood education.