The purpose of this study was to examine toddlers' experienced world,
which was shown in a play of the nature-friendly outdoor environment.
Through this, the aim was to offer an opportunity of trying to seek a plan
for activation in the nature-friendly outdoor play as for toddlers.
This study targeted 9 toddlers between 22 months and 33 months who
are attending S child care center where is located in Busan Metropolitan
City, and was progressed with qualitative research method available for
examining the in-depth significance of the phenomenon. A method of data
collection was carried out the participatory observation and the in-depth
interview.
As a result of the study, the toddlers play experience in nature friendly
outdoor environment provided special and various experience that can be
limited in indoor at daycare center.
First, toddlers were experiencing 'exploratory world of making a sense
awakened.' Second, toddlers were experiencing 'communicative world of
making emotion awakened.'
Finally, on the early childhood education and the child-care education, a
plan of offering enough time will need to be pursued now that toddlers can
experience a play by being deeply immersed in nature, which is the space
of free communication and the living sensational space, with escaping from
the existing frame.