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This study was an attempt to explore and suggest the policy needed for improving the early childhood teacher education system and curriculum according to the functional change in early childhood education. For the purpose of this study was to investigate the roles and values of the early childhood education in present days, to analysis the past and present realities of the early childhood teacher education systems and curriculums, and also to analysis the demands of the related groups.
As a result of the study, the major policy suggested are as follows:
- to rearrange the early childhood teacher education system to four-year education one
- to establish a national standard curriculum for early childhood teacher education(ear1y childhood development, early childhood education, and early childhood welfare are included in requirements)
- to adopt accrediting system on early childhood teacher education institutes
- to establish the teachers' certificate system regarding various roles and teachers' professionalism