This study conducted a critical discourse analysis on the play operation casebook following the 2019 revised Nuri process. The key players in the 2019 revised Nuri process are teachers and toddlers. For a play-oriented curriculum to work well, teacher...
This study conducted a critical discourse analysis on the play operation casebook following the 2019 revised Nuri process. The key players in the 2019 revised Nuri process are teachers and toddlers. For a play-oriented curriculum to work well, teachers must be able to support infants' play. The play management casebook is one of the materials to help teachers support play.
The need for a play operation casebook, which is commonly said in the three play operation casebooks, is that early childhood teachers need to present play operation cases that can help them improve their voluntary execution in the revised Nuri process.
As the autonomy of teachers is greatly expanded, the need for on-site support materials such as play operation casebooks is highlighted. In this study, three out of the five play operation casebooks were selected and the discourse analysis was conducted. In this study, for convenience, the research was conducted by naming "play, the power of infants to meet and live in the world" as key text A, "the role of teachers in supporting play" as key text B, and "play-oriented early childhood education" as key text C.
The research problem setting for these research topics is as follows. First, what is the prominent representation of the text analysis in the play operation casebook, secondly, there are three aspects of the production, distribution, and consumption of text in the play operation casebook, and thirdly, there are three aspects of social practice in the play operation casebook.
The analysis method of the study utilized Fairclough's 'Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to systematically analyze the discourse on play-oriented and infant-centered play operation casebooks, a key task of the 2019 revised Nuri process. It was analyzed using a three-step discourse analysis task, which was a suitable research method for understanding the inherent characteristics of discourse.
The findings are as follows. Text analysis of key texts A, B, and C in the play operation casebook showed that the prominent representations were "play," "infants," and "teachers." This is a result that supports the emphasis on the play-centered and infant-centered curriculum of the 2019 revised Nuri program.
Second, the results of production, dissemination, and consumption of text shall be as follows: Most of the text producers were workers related to early childhood education. It was also analyzed that teachers and early childhood education experts in the field were the subjects of dissemination. Finally, the subjects for text consumption were mainly related public officials, professors, prospective teachers, graduate students, parents, kindergarten and daycare center teachers. Third, the play operation casebook is an on-site support data that is applied to daycare centers and kindergartens to realize respect for infants. Based on the case of the play-oriented curriculum, the teacher who will make the most of this is found to be pursuing not only the autonomy and creativity of infants but also the community to realize the core of the 2019 revised Nuri program.
Based on these analysis results, teachers who support infant-centered play should support infant play in a free environment, not a uniform operation under the education plan, and should understand, observe, and reflect on infant play rather than investing a lot of time in the play plan. It also says that play should be connected to institutions through connections with homes.