The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of teacher's knowledge about infant development an efficacy of child care on teacher's development. This study is to search how teacher's knowledge of infant development and efficacy of child care eff...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of teacher's knowledge about infant development an efficacy of child care on teacher's development. This study is to search how teacher's knowledge of infant development and efficacy of child care effect on teacher's development.
The subjects of this study were 203 child care teachers who care children aged between 0 to 2 in Seoul, Gung-gi, Dae-jeon. The instruments used for this study were the KIDI(Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory) to measure the teacher's knowledge of infant development(Macphee, 1981), Back·Joe(2004)' instrument to measure the teacher's development levels, Hyun(2003)' instrument to measure the efficacy of childcare.
The data was analyzed by the frequency, percentile, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and the stepwise multiple regression analysis were implemented.
The followings are the research results:
First, teacher's knowledge of infant development, efficacy of child care and teacher's development levels were significantly different according to teacher's age, marriage, education levels, type of teacher's certificate and infant-care classroom experience.
Second, teacher's knowledge of infant development, efficacy of child care and teacher's development levels were significantly different according to type of center, korean childcare accreditation system, teacher training.
Third, Teacher variables, institution variables, knowledge of infant development, efficacy of child-care and teacher's development levels were significant related to each other statistically. And teacher variables, institution variables, knowledge of infant development and efficacy of child-care have an effect on teacher's development levels
In conclusion, the result shows that teacher variables, institution variables, knowledge of infant development and efficacy of childcare have an effect on teacher's development levels.
Therefore, for to improve in the professionality on the teachers, teachers should exert themselves constantly and also they need support of institution.