은유와 이미지를 통해 본유아교사의 다문화가정과 다문화교육에 대한 인식

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The purpose of this study is to examine the perception of early childhood teachers on the multicultural families and to explore the general understanding of multicultural education in 191 early childhood teachers in Seoul and Gyeonggi area. The research questions are as follows. First, what is the perception of early childhood teachers about multicultural families? Second, what is the perception of early childhood teachers about multicultural education? Third, what is the perception of multicultural education according to the recognition type? For the research questions 1 and 2, the linguistic metaphors of the subjects were collected and the metaphorical images were analyzed for the research question 3 as follows. First, the early childhood teachers were aware of multicultural families ‘ family with diversity’, ‘coexistent family with us’, ‘family with difficulties in assimilation of our society’, ‘family with inherent problems’, ‘unfamiliar family with me’, ‘weak family’, and ‘special family’. The early childhood teachers cognized the multiculture education that there were the education pursuing the value of coexistence, education to recognize diversity, essential education, preparation for the future, education that is difficult to execute, education for the elimination of prejudice, and an educational method for multiculture. Third, as a result of image analysis of multicultural education based on positive recognition type and negative recognition type for multicultural families categorized through metaphor analysis, early childhood teachers had positive expectations and direction about multicultural education in both categories.

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