The purpose of this study was to examine differences in multicultural early
childhood teaching activities according to the general characteristics of early
childhood teachers, to analyze the relationships and effects of early childhood
teachers’ happiness, variables of attitudes toward the teaching profession, and
variables of multicultural teaching, and ultimately to identify variables related to
early childhood teachers that explain multicultural early childhood teaching
activities. For this study, 270 teachers in charge of young children from
multicultural families at early childhood education institutions were sampled.
When the ‘age’ variable, which might affect multicultural teaching activities,
was excluded and the relationships among early childhood teachers’ variables as
independent variables were analyzed, happiness and obsessive passion were
found to have an effect on multicultural teaching activities. These findings
suggest that early childhood teachers’ happiness and passion for teaching needs
to be enhanced as an effort to set the direction of multicultural education fit for
the characteristics of Korea in the field of early childhood education, where the
foundation of culture is laid and prejudices are easily formed.