An Analysis of the Concept Map of Kindergarten Teachers with a Special Regard to the Multi-Cultural Education
Min Kyoung Hong , Kyeong Hwa Lee
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to analyze the concept map of kindergarten teachers concerning their levels of contents knowledge and their overall level of competency in terms of multi-cultural education. The participants were 104 teachers from 11 kindergartens in Busan. Data were analyzed by Sim`s (2008) method based on Novak & Gowin (1984) and Morine-Dershimer (1993). The results were as follows. First, a majority of participants made a limited concept map and used 22 representative categories regarding multi-cultural education and the category of ``various nations`` was the most popular superordinate concept. Second, the level of knowledge in terms of the maps were generally low in so far as most of maps reached hierarchy 1. The results of the research suggested that kindergarten teachers were lacking in basic knowledge of multi-cultual education and therefore there is a real need for both conceptualization and teacher training for multi-cultual education, reviewing of current ``teachers``, ``manuals``, and follow-up research aimed at analyzing teacher`s multi-cultual education competence.
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