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A Study on the Meaning of Robot Play Experience of 5-Year-Old Children: Focused on free play and structured group activities

만 5세 유아의 로봇 놀이 경험의 의미연구: 자유놀이와 구조적 집단활동을 중심으로

  • Received : 2022.09.02
  • Accepted : 2022.10.15
  • Published : 2022.11.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compare the meaning of the experience of robot play in the free play time of 5-year-old children in daycare centers with the experience of 5-year-old children in the structural group activities of teachers. To this end, a total of 32 children (15 in the experimental group and 17 in the comparative group) aged 5 were conducted for 1 hour three times a week for 10 weeks. Robots were supported as toys in the classroom of the experimental group, and children in the comparative group freely experienced robot exploration and play during free play time, and children in the comparative group learned the robot's functions and performed structural group activities based on the 2019 Revised Nuri Curriculum national-level curriculum. As a result of analyzing the difference between pre-test and post-test, the use of robots in free play showed a significant effect in creativity and fluency of children, and a significant effect in expression of pleasure in playability. These results suggest that robots are meaningful as play materials in early childhood education, which aims for infant-led free play, and that it is worth studying the robot experiences of children in these free situations in the future.

본 연구는 어린이집 만 5세 유아의 자유놀이시간 로봇 놀이 경험의 의미를 교사의 구조적 집단활동에서 나타나는 만 5세 유아 경험과 비교하는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 만 5세 유아 총 32명(실험집단 15명, 비교집단 17명)을 대상으로 10주 동안 주 3회 1시간씩 진행하였다. 실험집단의 교실에 놀잇감으로 로봇을 지원하였으며, 유아들은 자유놀이시간에 자유롭게 로봇 탐색과 놀이를 경험하였으며, 비교집단의 유아들은 교사가 로봇의 기능을 알려주고 로봇에 탑재되어 있는 2019 개정 누리과정과 연계된 월별 주제에 기반한 구조적 집단활동을 하였다. 사전검사와 사후검사의 차이를 분석한 결과, 자유놀이에서 로봇 활용이 유아의 창의성에서 독창성, 유창성에서 유의미한 효과가 나타났고, 놀이성에서 즐거움의 표현에서 유의미한 효과가 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 유아 주도적인 자유놀이를 지향하고 있는 유아교육에서 놀이자료로서 로봇이 의미가 있으며 향후 이러한 자유로운 상황에서의 유아들의 로봇 경험을 연구할 가치가 있다는 것을 시사한다.

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