실외 자연놀이에서 2세 영아에게 나타나는 인지적 경험의 의미

초록

The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore the procedures, objects and their meanings of two-year-olds’ cognitive experiences during their outdoor nature play in a child care center. The participants of the study were eight two-year-olds’ in a child care center; five boys and three girls. The participant observations were made from June-November 2013. The results are as follows. First, two-year-olds’ cognitive expediencies about nature play were categorized into ‘concept understanding’ and ‘thinking’. It appeared that two-year-olds’ experienced ‘nature concepts’ through ‘categorization’, ‘mathematical concepts’ and ‘biological concepts’ in terms of concept understanding. Second, the educational meaning of two-old-years nature play appeared as follows: expression of free exploration, experiencing flexible time and space, and distant teacher’s role.

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