The purpose of this study is to reveal working time and psychological difficulties of national and public
daycare center teachers in the operation process of an accreditation system and seek ways of resolving
them. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on 413 teachers in 291 national and public daycare
centers in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 7 nursery teachers.
It showed that in the operation process of an accreditation system, teachers had been performing heavy
tasks of 11 hours daily, and they were experiencing psychological difficulties with the conflict 'between
interactions with infants and other duties', 'between free exploration and safety ‧ health', and 'between
our story and external criteria'. Based on the findings, the following changes of recognition for nursery
teachers were required. First, there is a need for the change of recognition concerned with the child-care
of high quality, rather than performing evaluation index. Second, there is a need for the change of
recognition concerned with overall optimization rather than sectional optimization. This study is
significant in that it suggested the basic direction for the operation process of an accreditation system, by
exploring the psychological difficulties of nursery teachers.