This study is to investigate the meaning of pre-service educare teachers' leadership
experience about program development. The participants were 41 juniors in college,
majoring in Child Welfare. They attended an 'infant & young childhood educare
program development and evaluation' class for 15 weeks. During the given period
they made documents from reflective journals and 5 participants among them were
interviewed individually. Analyzing the documents sheds light on the meaning of the
pre-service educare teahcers' experience. The results are as follows. First,
pre-service educare teachers got a deeper understanding and attachment about
communities. Second, they did a critical analysis about well-known home and abroad
educare programs. Third, they had a opportunity of reflection about their education
philosophy and competences. Forth, they experienced diverse leadership that is needed
from educare teacher. The results showed the implications and suggestions about
pre-service teacher education for educare teacher's curriculum leadership development.