This study was aimed to find out the daily lesson period and located time for the free play activities, teacher's recognitions of values for the free play activities, teacher's role in various situations during the activities, and problem for the teac...
This study was aimed to find out the daily lesson period and located time for the free play activities, teacher's recognitions of values for the free play activities, teacher's role in various situations during the activities, and problem for the teacher's guidance for the activities, to get necessary information for the effective guidance for the free play activities.
Questionnaire paper asked to the 80 teachers from 80 kindergartens in Jean Bug region, the recovery ratio of Questionnaires was 85%.
Findings of the research are as follows :
1. In general 40-60 minutes a day are alocated for the free play activities, regardless to daily lesson period, and alocated time changes according to the seasons.
2. The teachers have revealed some tendency of putting first priority on the physical values of the free play activities, next on social values, on intellectual values.
3. The teachers pay attentions to trouble among infants during the activities to suggest for their solutions, but in other play parts they seldom pay any attentioks ons.
4. Imaginary play materials, creative play materials, rhythms materials, and printed materials are moderately provided. However natural play materials, science play materials are poorly ed. provid-
5. It is the Problems for the teacher's guidance for the free play activities that play materials are poorly provided, the teachers are not sufficient in number, space and time either.