유아의 동물개념발달 연구 = An Analysis on the Development of Animal Concepts in Young Children

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is aimed at determining the development of animal concepts by age in young children and suggesting a direction of biology education for young children accordingly. For this purpose, a survey using revised questionnaires on animal concepts based on previous research of animal concepts (Bo-young Rhee, 2009) was conducted among 56 young children ages 3 to 5 enrolled in early childhood education institutions in D city and analyzed to investigate changes in young children`s animal concepts by age. The survey results found that animal concepts in young children are developed with advancing age. They also showed preconception on animals in young children such as the concepts on characteristics, life cycle and surrounding environment of animals. Therefore, these findings suggest that biology educational activities for acquiring concepts, value, and attitude should be organized along with perceptual observation when composing educational activities on animals in the field of early childhood education since ymmg children may have difficulty in getting correct concepts only from their perceptual experiences.