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The Effect of Teacher's Teaching-Efficacy and Classroom Environment on Peer-Play Interaction: Mediation Effect of Teacher-Child Interaction

유아교육기관 교사의 교수효능감과 교실환경이 유아의 또래놀이 상호작용에 미치는 영향: 교사-유아 상호작용의 매개효과

  • Seo, Seok-weon (Department of Early Childhood Education, Chung Cheong University) ;
  • Park, Ji-sun (Department of Early Childhood Education, Mokwon University)
  • 서석원 (충청대학교 유아교육과) ;
  • 박지선 (목원대학교 유아교육과)
  • Received : 2016.02.29
  • Accepted : 2016.04.12
  • Published : 2016.06.30
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Abstract

This study examines the mediation effect of teacher-child interactions in the process of the impact of teacher's teaching-efficacy on childhood education institutions and classroom environment on peer-play interactions. We used data from 970 children aged between 49 and 55 months and 970 homeroom teachers from the fifth Korean Child Panel (2012) of the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education. The model fitness was excellent after data were statistically analyzed with model of structure to testify the relationship and effect among teaching efficacy, classroom environment, teacher-child interactions, and peer-play interactions. First, the analysis also showed that the teacher's teaching efficacy did not influence peer-play interactions directly, but gave an indirect effect on the peer-play interactions with the mediation of the teacher-child interactions. Second, the classroom environment directly and indirectly influenced the peer-play interactions with the mediation of the teacher-child interactions. Third, the variable of teacher-child interactions was fully effective as a mediating variable in the process of the teaching efficacy and classroom environment influence on teacher-child interactions. Teaching efficacy and classroom environment influenced the peer-play interactions through the mediation of the teacher-child interactions. The significance of mediation effect of the teacher-child interactions was verified through a bootstrapping method.

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