The purpose of this study is to examine the actual condition of the literature education of young children in Gyeong Sang Nam Do, The specific problems of this study are as follows :
1. What is the goal of young childrens's literature education?
2. ...
The purpose of this study is to examine the actual condition of the literature education of young children in Gyeong Sang Nam Do, The specific problems of this study are as follows :
1. What is the goal of young childrens's literature education?
2. What is the criteria for the selection of young children's literature books?
3. What is trends of use and interest for media of young children's literature?
1) What is trends of use and interest for fairy tales and creative tales?
2) What is trends of use and interest for picture-tales?
3) What is trends of use and interest for kinds of puppets?
4) Have you ever taken a chance of a puppet-show?
5) Have you ever taken a chance of children's drama?
6) Have you ever used the children's verse in a classroom?
4. How many books of young children's literature do they stock in kindergarten and what is the teacher s viewpoint for these?
5. How is YES or NO of the teacher s experience for a creative activity of young children's literature?
6. For fairy tales :
1) What is the title of fairy tale most used in kindergarten?
2) What is the title of fairy tale which kindergarten-boys are most interested in?
3) What is the title of fairy tale which kindergarten-girls are most interested in?
4) What is the title of fairy tale which kindergarten-teachers are most interested in?
7. What do you want in the class allocated for young children's literature in college?
8. What is the problem in young cildren's literature education?
For this study 27 nursery schools, 20 kindergarten attached to elementary schools and 78 private kindergarten in Kyeong Sang Nam Do were randomly sampled. The total subject of the study were 125 teachers. The instrument used for this study was a questionnaire. It was distributed to the teachers and filled out by them. Chi-square was used to analyze by the data obtained from the questionnaire. The results of this study are as follows :
1. For the goal of young children's literature education : 'to be helped creative and expressive activities to literature in various ways' was regarded to be the most important in general.
2. For the criteria for selection of young children's literature books ; 'the contents related a unit was regarded to be the most important in general.
3. For the trends of use interest fot the media of young children s literature ;
'picture-tale' and 'picture-books' are the descending order responded.
4. For books of young children's literature and teacher s viewpoint for those ; '100 books and below them' and 101-200 books' are the descending order responded and answered 'proper' for these.
5. For the YES or No of the teacher's experience for a creative activity of youg children's literature ;
'NO' was regarded to be the most in general.
6. For fairy tales and the title of fairy tale most used in kindergartens ; 'Heungbu-Jean', 'Hokburi-younggam' and 'Hae wa Dali Deun O-nui' are the descending order responded by boys. 'Kongzui and patzui' and 'Baek-seol Princess' are the descending order responded by girls. And 'Hae wa dali Deun O-nui' and 'Hokburi-younggam' are by teachers.
7. For the request to the class allocated for young children's literature in college ;
'the manufacture technique for media of young children's literature and communiate method 'and' the guidance of the creative education to the genre of young children's literature' are the descending order responded by teachers.
8. For the problem in young children's literature education ;
'the problem of manufacture technique for media', 'The difficulty of selection for a literary work and the poor of a subject matter' and 'the poor of teaching materials' are the descending order responded by teachers.