한국 유아체육의 연구동향 분석과 방향제안 = An Analysis and Suggestion for Research Tendency on Physical Education for young children in Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The present study aims to understand the current research tendency of physical education for young children by analyzing 175 dissertations defended from 2002 to 2011 and journals contain at least 10 articles related to the physical education for young children. Through analyzing the purposes, research methods, published years, and subdivided majors of published papers in the journals, the research tendency on the physical education for young children was discussed. As a whole 130 papers were published in four major journals related to physical education for young children. The number of research articles on the physical education for young children are decreasing or showing stasis. This result suggests an urgent need of developing the specialized journal on the physical education for infants.