The Society of Convergence Knowledge Transactions ISSN:2287-8920(Print) 융복합지식학회논문지

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the nine-year change in perception of pre-service early childhood teachers’ on Confucian values as Korean traditional values, and to find out the Confucian values as Korean traditional values recognized by pre-service early childhood teachers as of 2020. To this end, 215 students in the early childhood education department of the college located in J city and 187 students in the department of the same school were used to find out the change in perception of Confucian values by using the tool for measuring Confucian values as Korean traditional values. The research results according to the analysis results are as follows. First, the recognition of the importance of Confucian values ​​was found to have a significant correlation with the subject satisfaction of pre-service early childhood teachers in both 2012 and 2020. Second, in recognizing the importance of Confucian values, pre-service early childhood teachers recognized it as normal in 2012, but in 2020 pre-service early childhood teachers were statistically changed. In 2012 and 2020, Korean traditional values also changed the ranking of important perceptions of the 29 Items of Confucian values as Korean traditional values.