This study explored the perception of pre-service early-childhood teachers about aesthetic sensibility
which has been elucidated and emphasized in a Korea National Kindergarten Curriculum. A total of
166 Junior and senior undergraduate students participated in the questionnaire survey and an in-depth
interview was conducted with 12 students who were drawn from those of participants in survey.
Particularly the interview was designed to include \'representational activities\' such as drawing and
concept map, in order to help the participants transform easily about their inner aesthetic sensibility
into verbal form.
In the results, pre-service early-childhood teachers recognized the sense of beautiful feeling as aesthetic
sensibility and stressed the perception of aesthetic sensibility in nature and the arts. They also recognize
that aesthetic sensibility could happen not only through simply specific activities or products but also
through mind assimilation and immersion, indicating that aesthetic sensibility is linked with aesthetic
consciousness. The other important finding was that many of participants mentioned their own aesthetic
sensibility do not seem to be supported through classes of arts, revealing the fact that educational
objectives in \"Representation Area,\" particularly related to \'aesthetic sensibility,\' in Korea National
Kindergarten Curriculum do not seem to be realized in university classrooms. The Korea National
Kindergarten Curriculum is needed to strengthen aesthetic-sensibility education in more specific domain
and broader area in oder to help and empower pre-service teachers\' aesthetic sensibility.