Purpose: This study investigates pre-service teachers images as infant and early childhood, teachers, principals and
their changing patterns before and after educare practice. Method: The subjects of this study were 34 of the
pre-service teachers enrolled in edu-care department at B university in P city. To collect the data, pre-service
teachers were interviewed and interviewed before and after the edu-care practice. For this purpose, we asked
them to describe their images as pre-service teachers, infant and early childhood, principals before and after care
practice. These images were categorized by content analysis method by qualitative research method. Results:
According to the analysis, First, before the educare practice, pre-service teachers showed a white drawing paper,
cute, pure of infant and early childhood positive image of love and care. After the educare practice, pre-service
teachers showed a positive image with some negation included hateful, not childish, angel, need to trim, etc.
Second, Before the educare practice, pre-service teachers showed a positive image of love and care for the image
of teachers. After the educare practice, pre-service teachers showed a positive image with some negation
included difficult, hard, educator, caregiver, etc. Third, before and after educare practice, pre-service teachers
identity as principals have not changed, but they were nonetheless able to re-cognition their identity as
principals through the educare practice. After child care practice, infant and early childhood, teachers, images
changed love, caring and so on. Conclusion: Based on these results, we suggest that educare teachers, principals
professionalism needs to be reconceptualized for human resource development in teachers education and educare
center. Moreover, it is necessary for pre-service teachers to give opportunities to reflect their images and from
new images through teacher education curriculum.