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본 연구는 소집단 생태체험 활동이 혼합연령과 단일연령 유아의 과학적 탐구능력과 사회적 능력에 미치는 영향이 어떠한가를 분석하는데 목적을 두었다. 이를 위해 ‘자연물 이야기 나누기’, ‘자연물과 관계 맺기’, ‘자연물 탐색하기’, ‘자연물 게임하기’, ‘표상하기’, ‘평가하기’ 순으로 진행되는 소집단 생태체험 활동을 계획하였다. W시에 위치한 유아교육기관의 만 4, 5세 유아 161명을 실험집단과 비교집단으로 분류한 후 실험집단은 혼합연령 중심의 소집단을, 비교집단은 단일연령의 소집단을 구성하여 생태체험 활동을 적용하였다. 수집된 자료를 근거로 유아의 과학적 탐구능력과 사회적 능력의 평균과 표준편차를 산출하였으며, 집단과 연령에 따른 실험처치의 효과를 분석하기 위해 사전검사 점수를 공변인으로 한 이원 공변량분석(two-way ANCOVA)과 단순주효과분석(simple main effect analysis)을 실시하였다. 분석결과, 혼합연령 집단 내 만 4, 5세 유아의 과학적 탐구능력과 사회적 능력이 단일연령 집단의 유아에 비해 유의하게 향상되었으며, 특히 만 5세 유아의 사회적 능력이 더욱 높은 수준으로 향상된 것으로 나타났다.
The purpose of this study is to analyze how small group ecological experience activities affect children’s scientific inquiry ability and social competence in mixed-age and same-age groups. For this, the study conducted small group ecological experience activities in the order of ‘talking about a natural object’, ‘making a relationship with a natural object’, ‘searching for a natural object’, ‘playing a natural object’, ‘representing’, and ‘evaluating’. These activities were performed on 161 children aged between four to five from child education institutions located in W city, divided into an experimental group and a comparative group. The experimental group was comprised of a small group of mixed-age and the comparative group was comprised of same-age children. Based on the collected data, the mean and standard deviation of children’s scientific inquiry ability and social competence were calculated, and two‐way ANCOVA with a pre-test score as a covariate and simple main effect analysis were performed to analyze the effect of experimental treatment by group and age. In the analysis results, it was shown that the scientific inquiry ability and social competence of the children in mixed-age group improved significantly compared to that of the children in same-age group, in particular, the social competence of 5-year-olds was found to have improved to a much higher level.
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small group activity, ecological experience activities, scientific inquiry ability, social competence
