포스트 코로나 시대의 유아 숲교육의 의미 = The Meaning of Forest Education for Early Childhood in the Post-Corona Era

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines the meaning of forest education for early childhood in the post-Corona era and outlined the necessity and importance of forest education in Korean early childhood education. Forest education is an education that helps children develop their whole body based on harmonious relations with nature, and is conducted using nature as a play and teaching tool, and using the forest itself as an institution for early childhood education. In other words, the best teacher for infants is nature, and it is learning, life, and education for infants to communicate and play with nature to their fullest. The forest play of infants is the physical development and social development of infants. It is an education that improves emotional development, cognitive development, and provides universal education such as life-respecting thoughts, artistic experiences, language skills, and creativity development.
The Corona19, which covered the world, brought about changes in the school scene. Non-face-to-face education, learner-centered education, and ecological education, which are characteristic of education in the post-corona age with the value of early childhood forest education. The value of forest education for infants, life and respect for nature, are specified in the 2019 revised Nuri curriculum goal, which is a state-level infant education course, and learners-oriented education is realized through outdoor forest play and infant-centered free play. Therefore, it was considered that forest education for infants was appropriate for the post-corona era.