본 연구는 유아의 나무 그리기 활동의 의미를 알아보기 위하여 부산시에 위치한 B어린이집의 만 5 세아 26명을 연구 참여자로 선정하였다. 2014년 3월 첫째 주부터 2014년 11월 첫째 주까지 B어린이집 만 5세반의 오전 10시 20분에서 12시 00분까지의 산책 활동에서 나타나는 나무 그리기 활동을 관찰 및 비디오 녹화를 하여 자료를 수집하였다. 또한 유아들과 비형식적 면담을 실시하며 연구일지를 작 성하였다. 나무 그리기 활동은 첫째, 유아에게 ‘자연에 한 걸음 더 다가가기’의 의미가 있었다. 유아 는 나무 그리기 활동을 통해 같은, 또 다른 나무의 모습을 발견하면서 나무를 친구처럼 여기며 나무 주변의 생명체와 날씨, 계절을 만나게 되었다. 둘째, 유아에게 나무 그리기 활동은 ‘타인과 한 걸음 더 가까워지기’의 의미가 있었다. 유아들은 친구 나무에 관심을 가지며 친구와 대화를 나누게 되었고 이러한 활동 속에서 유아들은 놀며, 그리며 친구와 친하게 지내는 모습을 볼 수 있었다. 셋째, ‘나를 한 걸음 더 들여다보기’로 유아는 나무 그리기 활동에서 유아 내면에 있는 감정을 느끼며 자신을 들 여다보게 되었다. 나아가 이를 통해 나무와 나무 주변의 생명까지 소중히 여기고 배려하며 존중하게 되었다.
The purpose of this study was to examine the meaning of a tree-drawing activity among preschoolers. as there are plenty of trees that preschoolers can see both in their neighborhood and in nature. A tree-drawing activity refers in this study to an activity that preschoolers select their own trees while taking a walk, observe them and draw them. A research question was posed: What is the meaning of the tree-drawing activity by five-year-old children? The subjects in this study were 26 preschoolers in a class of western age five in a daycare center located in an urban community. Data were gathered by making a participant observation in 31 sessions from the first week of March to the first week of November, 2014. The collected data involved a research journal, the drawings and writings of the preschoolers, informal interview data with the preschoolers and formal and informal interview data with the teacher who was the assistant observer. The collected data were analyzed to see what phenomena repeatedly appeared in the data, and the selected phenomena were categorized. The findings of the study were as follows: First, the preschoolers were able to keep being with nature while they engaged in the tree-drawing activity, which could be called “taking a step toward nature.” Second, people who got to bond with them became their friends who drew trees together, which could be called “taking a step toward others.” Third, the preschoolers were able to express themselves and look into themselves while they engaged in the tree-drawing activity, which could be called “taking a look at oneself.” The findings of the study show that the tree-drawing activity enabled the preschoolers to esteem life, to be considerate of it, to have close relationship with their friends, to be aware of their own emotion and to look back on themselves.
Ⅰ. 서 론 Ⅱ. 연구방법 Ⅲ. 연구결과 Ⅳ. 결론 및 논의 참고문헌
