The purpose of this study was to find an educational direction for the stabilization of R-Learning in the
field of children’s education through researching kindergarten teachers’ — both with and without the
experience of having run classes in which robot-application was utilized — perception of R-Learning.
Subjects for the study consisted of 10 teachers; 5 with experience in running classes using robotapplication,
and 5 without experience. Research was conducted from July of 2013 to May of 2015, via the
means of semi-structured in-depth interviews with each subject 2-3 times throughout the study. Results
of the study showed that when presented with the words ‘robot’ and ‘R-Learning’, teachers with
robot-applied class experiences related to those words foremostly the name of the particular robot they
happened to be using in their respective classrooms; on the other hand, teachers without robot-applied
class experiences related various words homologous to the word robot in general. Whereas teachers with
the aforementioned experience perceived the robots’ necessity and educational potential as highly valuable
— in spite of the machines’ technical limitations such as malfunctioning —, among teachers without
experience were opinions voicing anxiety toward robots, which they regarded as an extension of the mass
media, negatively impacting the holistic development of children, rather than considering the educational
merits of robot-application. On the matter of R-Learning stabilization, both groups of teachers perceived of
the need for R-Learning training and user manuals to be provided for the teachers and expressed the
opinion that governmental funding was necessary for the purchase of the expensive robots.