The purpose of the study was to understand how pre in-service infant teachers recognize experiences that they would go through during infant teachers training process. In order to achieve the research goal, the study had an interview with a total of f...
The purpose of the study was to understand how pre in-service infant teachers recognize experiences that they would go through during infant teachers training process. In order to achieve the research goal, the study had an interview with a total of five pre in-service infant teachers majoring in early childhood education at College A as a senior. The collected data as interview records, journals by the researcher and others collected via email and a messenger were processed into different codes by subject and were analyzed.
The results of the analysis are summarized as follows. First, the pre in-service infant teachers said that they have understood early childhood education via lectures that they had attended at institutes during the infant teachers training process. The pre in-service infant teachers believed that, in order to understand early childhood education, they need to know the importance of early childhood, the importance of infant teachers' responsibility and the present condition of the real early childhood education field. Second, the pre in-service infant teachers said that they got closer to early childhood education via extra experiences other than what they have learned from lectures in the institutes during the infant teachers training process. According to the pre in-service infant teachers, they came to understand more of early childhood education as they would experience various roles of an infant teacher, building up practical teaching skills by themselves rather than only stay at school and listen to lectures. Third, the pre in-service infant teachers said that they could focus on early childhood education by personally visiting the early childhood education field. They added that they got themselves into early childhood education even more as they studied levels of infants in the real field, built a relationship with teaching practice directors and forming one's own teaching philosophy as well.