The Purpose of this study was to explore the symbol playing feature of the infants according to the type of the Child-care centers.
The subjects of this study were general child-care center, 24hours child-care center and 8 infants in each child-care c...
The Purpose of this study was to explore the symbol playing feature of the infants according to the type of the Child-care centers.
The subjects of this study were general child-care center, 24hours child-care center and 8 infants in each child-care center and related play material, physical and personal environment. The method of this study was ethnomethodological approach.
The results of this study were 1) There was the qualitative difference in the personal, physical environment matter in 2 kinds of the child-care centers.
2) The pretend levels that present in symbol play were the considerable differences each according to the child-care centers.
3) According to the chid-care centers, there was the difference in the representation level of play material.
There was the discussion on the personal, physical environment"s matter of day-care centers.