This research aims to find out what pre-service teachers are seriously concerned about and what
they contemplated during the process of discovering the meanings of teaching, and to reveal the
meanings compiled by the pre-service teachers. Furthermore, this research intends to identify the
elements considered to help the pre-service teachers continue to construct the meanings of teaching
in the education for pre-service daycare teachers by reviewing the process of contemplation. To do
so, this study selected a target group of 29 seniors of M University who took the class of “Teaching
Method for Young children” given in the first semester of 2012 and “Child Care and teaching
Practice” given in the second semester of 2012. Research data collection was done based on the
paper materials on participant observation, interview, student journals and professor feedbacks and
small group discussion. According to the research, the pre-service teachers created the meanings of
teaching as they experience confusion between one extreme to another of power and looking easy,
having children focused and being focused, just giving and leaving and discrimination and equality.
They considered teaching as a process of continuous reconstruction by choosing the best place
between the opposites within the context of teaching and understood that teaching is to respect the
right of learning for children and at the same time to make efforts to develop inner-self. In addition,
to support the pre-service daycare teachers in their efforts to find the nature of teaching in the
education program, it is required to review the teaching process from a variety of aspects in the
atmosphere where they are not afraid of confusion, and to provide time to meditate alone and share
ideas with others.