The Relationship Between the Creative Teaching Behavior and Factors of a Preschool Teacher: Work Environments and 5-Personality Elements of Kindergarten Teachers
AUTHOR : 강민성, 황선숙, 이루리, 박경애
INFORMATION : page. 51~71 / 2021 Vol.28 No.2
ABSTRACT
This research aims to figure out the relationship between creative teaching behavior and factors of preschool teachers such as job environment and the big five personality elements. We also investigate how job environments and personalities affect the creative teaching of pre-preschool teachers. We surveyed 260 preschool teachers in Seoul and the Chungnam region using significant sampling with 239 questionnaires. First, the general group who joined the survey tends to have moderate job environments, high affinity, and low neurosis in the job environment and personality section. Also, they have high openness and ambiguity but low attention on performing homework in the creative teaching behavior section. Second, the results to investigate the relationship between the factors of the preschool teacher and creative teaching behavior show that there is a relevance between the factors and the behavior. Third, the results show that chances to have a better career in the job environment section and specific personalities such as neurosis, openness and sincerity have the most meaningful effect on creative teaching behavior. Therefore, to develop creative teaching behavior for the creativity of infants, we need to enhance job environments that can develop teachers’ professionalism and encourage teachers in having stable and open personalities.