This study was conducted in order to survey how the child care center accreditation system was
perceived by the directors and teachers of child care centers in A City that had passed both the 1 st
and 2 nd accreditation and to suggest directors for the child care center accreditation system, the
application of which would be expanded continuously in the future. For these purposes, we sampled 6
child care center directors and 6 child care center teachers and had passed the 1 st accreditation, and
conducted in-depth interviews during January and February, 2008. In addition, during March and
April, 2011 after the child care center had passed the 2 nd accreditation, the researcher visited the
same child care centers.
According to the result of this study, as to what were satisfactory in the 1 st and 2 nd
accreditation, the child care center directors and teachers mentioned the change of their attitude
toward participation in accreditation, improvement in child care environment, enhanced quality of
interaction with infants and toddlers, and systematic improvement in administration. With regard to
what were difficult in the 1 st and 2 nd accreditation, both the child care center directors and teachers
mentioned difficulty in understanding the meaning of evaluation items and the shortages of financial
support and manpower. With regard to what to be supplemented for the child care center
accreditation system in the future, both the child care center directors and teachers mentioned that it
would be much more difficult and important to maintain and manage the state on appraisal than to
pass the accreditation, and insisted strongly that high-quality interaction between teachers and
infants/toddlers would be possible only with financial support for increasing personnel support.