본 연구는 사진 활동을 통하여 유아들의 ‘살아있는 것’에 대한 이해가 어떠한 과정으로 변화되는지를 알아보는데 목적을 두고 만 5세 유아 12명을 대상으로 사진 활동을 실시하였다. 사진 활동의 과정은 카메라의 기능과 사용법에 대한 준비단계 후 ‘관심가지기’, ‘사진 찍기’, ‘토의하기’, ‘확장활동’순으로진행되었다. 연구 과정을 통해 연구자의 관찰기록, 비디오 자료, 유아들이 찍은 사진, 활동 작품 등을 수집하였으며, 연구자는 자료를 통합한 후 개념 특성별 유형을 추출하고 내용을 객관화 하여 해석하였다. 연구 결과, 사진 활동을 통하여 유아들은 연구 초기 ‘움직임’에 집중하여 ‘살아있는 것’을 이해하였으며, ‘살아있는 것’에 대한 이해는 사진 활동이 진행됨에 따라 ‘움직임’에서 ‘생김새’, ‘호흡’, ‘성장’, ‘번식’, ‘죽음’, ‘먹이’등 다양한 범주로 확대되었다. 이러한 범주는 점차 서로 부딪히는 갈등 상황을 경험하게 되고 유아들은 갈등을 통해 ‘살아있는 것’에 대한 생각을 수정하게 된다.
The purpose of this study is to examine how young children change their understanding of ‘living things\' by Picture activity. For this purpose, the following research question was formulated. How did young children change their understanding of ‘living things\' by picture activity? The subject of this study was five-year-old 12 young children. As to the process of taking pictures, the participants were taught functions of camera and how to operate it first of all. Then, this study moved on in order of ‘getting interested\', ‘taking pictures\', ‘discussing\', and ‘doing extended activities\'. The data collected from this study included the researcher\'s field notes, video data, pictures taken by the participants, and works done by them. The researcher integrated the data, sampled patterns of characteristics, objectified and interpreted them. The results of this study are as follows: First, at the beginning of this study, the young children understood ‘living things\' focusing on their ‘movement\' while picture activity. Second, as the activity proceeded, their understanding of ‘living things\' extended from ‘movement\' to various areas such as ‘looks\', ‘breath\', ‘growth\', ‘breeding\', ‘death\', ‘food\', and other factors. Third, the young children who understood ‘living things\' by gradually focusing on various characteristics of ‘living things\' instead of focusing on their ‘movement\' at the early stage of this study came to experience conflicts between categories of characteristics of ‘living things\' including ‘looks\', ‘breath\', ‘breeding\', ‘death\', and ‘food\'. Fourth, the young children who experienced the conflict between each characteristic in understanding \'living things\' reconstructed their understanding of ‘living things\' through the conflict.
Ⅰ. 서 론 Ⅱ. 연구방법 Ⅲ. ‘살아있는 것’에 대한 이해 변화 Ⅳ. 논의 및 결론 참고문헌
