This study aims to examine kindergarten teachers' awareness and application
application on Noori curriculum for 5 year old early children. For the purposes, the research questions are as follows;
1. What is teachers' awareness and application on the...
This study aims to examine kindergarten teachers' awareness and application
application on Noori curriculum for 5 year old early children. For the purposes, the research questions are as follows;
1. What is teachers' awareness and application on the composition of Noori
curriculum for 5 year old early children?
2. What is teachers' importance and application on the educational sub-contents of Noori curriculum for 5 year old early children?
The subjects of this study are 220 teachers working in public and private kindergarten in Daegu metropolitan city and Gyeongsangbuk-do.
They responded the survey questionnaire which is "A study of Kinder -garten Teachers' Awareness and Application on Noori Curriculum for 5
year old Early Children", of which 202 data were used for the analysis. The survey of this questionnaire referred from the authors like Kim Young-ok et al(2006) about the 6th kindergarten curriculum, and Kim Woo-young(2010) about the revised kindergarten curriculum in 2007, and this researcher modified and reconstructed for the purpose of this study. And then, five early childhood education experts and five principals of early childhood institute verified the validity of the questionnaire. The form of questionnaire is 5 level Likert scale, and the contents are the kindergarten teachers' awareness and application on the basic directions. The key point of establishment of the new curriculum, the direction of composition, educational goals and contents of 5 categories presented by Noori curriculum. For the analysis of the results, SPSS/WIN(ver. 14.0) is used and statistic methods used are frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, paired t-test and independent t-test.
The Results of this study are as follows;
First, it was found that the kindergarten teachers had awareness of the contents proposed by "Noori curriculum for 5 year old early children" mostly.
Second, it was found that the kindergarten teachers applied all of 5 categories on Noori curriculum, namely health, communication, social relation, experience of art and research of nature mostly.
Third, the teachers' awareness on the contents of Noori curriculum is comparatively high, but application does not meet the level of awareness in the difference between teachers' awareness and application on the composition of Noori curriculum for 5 year old early children.
The results of this study shows that teachers' awareness and application on Noori curriculum for 5 year old early children could affect the early childhood education field, and it suggested the direction and value of study to improve the quality and effectiveness of early childhood education practice.