This research current state of community connection education in kindergarten in
local cities and agricultural regions. The purpose is to identify related problems and possible
solutions, and provide preliminary data for developing community connecting educational program
that caters to needs of provincial towns and rural areas. A survey was conducted for 148
teachers at public and private kindergarten located in eastern district in Jeonlanamdo Province.
The analysis result revealed that most kindergartens in local cities and agricultural regions.
conducted community connection education in varying methods. In regard to problerns of
community connection education, teachers in local cities indicated, indicated inconvenient traffic as the
greatest obstacle, while teachers in agricultural regions pointed out lack of community
resource. Regarding how to facilitate community connection education, teachers in both local
cities and agricultural regions indicated development and distribution of educational programs
to be the most urgent task