Pre-service early childhood teacher’s recognitionflor cargiving of children’s rights:focused on concept mapping

The purpose of this study is to explore the recognition of pre-service early childhood teachers about cargiving of children’s rights, paying attention to the concept of understanding cargiving of children’s rights and what they consider important. or this purpose, 17 pre-service early childhood teachers were selected as research participants. After the research participants stated their thoughts on the researcher’s focal question and organized the collected statements, the research participants conducted categorization and importance rating. As a result of the study, first, 48 statements were generated for pre-service early childhood teachers’ perception cargiving of children’s rights, and a multidimensional scale analysis was conducted to divide them into two dimensions: ‘Receptive aspect - educational aspect’ and ‘Act of responsibility - act of sharing’. In addition, the statements were classified into 7 clusters: ‘play support’, ‘personal protection’, ‘emotional support’, ‘Daily information’, ‘safety map’, 'Communication support' and ‘Compliance with the rules’through cluster analysis. Second, with respect to the importance of statements, <Helps avoid using negative language>, <Teach your friends not to speak disrespectfully>, and <Greet you with a smile> showed high importance.