Study of Daily Life at a Childcare Center during the Covid-19 Pandemic according to the director’s perceptions of the childcare center
AUTHOR : 손준희, 김선희, 이희영
INFORMATION : page. 213~236 / 2020 Vol.27 No.4
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to examine the meanings of changed daily life in Covid-19 from the perception of the directors of child care centers in Korea. Five persons who direct child care center in B-city participated in this study. In order to collect data interview was used. Texts were collected through 3 times individual interview. Collected data were analyzed using Giorgi’ phenomenological approach. Research analysis revealed two categories and nine concepts. Major results of this study were as follows: First, directors experienced striated space from the changed life caused by Covid-19. The striated spaces are from closed child care centers, two faces of extension of childcare center closing and emergency child care, difficulty in budgeting, locking down daily lives in a face mask, inflexible regulation, and continuous newcomer’s adaptation period. Second, directors were making borderlands of changed life in Covid-19. In striated spaces, they were making a borderland of a role as a healthcare manager and as planner and practitioner of child care philosophy and curriculum. This study is significant in terms of analyzing data from vivid voices of child care directors who experienced unpredictable new infectious disease and examining meanings of changed daily life in Covid-19 comprehensively. This study may suggest some implications for crisis response and government support for directors of child care centers.