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Exploratory Research on Early Childhood Software Education: Focusing on the Computational Thinking of In-service Teachers

  • Global Creative Leader: Education & Learning
  • Abbr : GCL
  • 2019, 9(5), pp.159-180
  • DOI : 10.34226/gcl.2019.9.5.159
  • Publisher : Research Institute for Gifted & Talented Education, Soongsil University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : November 17, 2019
  • Accepted : December 3, 2019
  • Published : December 30, 2019

Myunghee Choi 1 Kwon, Sukjin 2

1신구대학교
2호원대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to explore the viability of software education in early childhood education. To this end, year five class teachers were trained in computational thinking for the purpose of employing software education. Through in-service teacher training, they developed an understanding of sub-constructs such as problem decomposition, pattern recognition, algorithm, abstraction, and debugging thinking, which compose computational thinking. After that, they try to evaluate children's computational thinking. This series of training programs improved teacher computational thinking from an average of 2.2 to 3.3(5-point Likert scale). In addition, it was confirmed through content and word cloud analysis that the computational thinking of the teacher was relatively close to expert level. Considering the link with elementary education, which requires software education, efforts are needed to provide in-service teacher training through a decentralized approach developed according to the situational needs of early childhood education institutions. Furthermore, software education is needed to improve the computational thinking of preservice teachers in preparation for societal demand.

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