摘要：The purpose of this study was to examine parents’ image of kindergarten teacher in a bid to provide useful information on kindergarten teacher and parents education to improve the image of kindergarten teachers. The participants in this study were 90 mothers whose young children attended kindergarten in the city of Busan. They were asked to describe what words came into their mind about the image of kindergarten teacher and what an ideal image of kindergarten teacher should be like. Among the participants,ten mothers were interviewed to tell about the ideal image of kindergarten teacher. The largest number of the parents wrote down the words that represented the image of the personality of kindergarten teachers,and love and friendliness were the most common words that the parents mentioned. As for an ideal image of kindergarten teacher,they wanted kindergarten teachers to love preschoolers,to have a good and friendly personality,to sec through young children’s eyes and to be positive and happy. It indicated that the parents expected their children to be educated by teachers who arc understanding,cheerful,have a good personality and love children as their own children.
