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초록
This research has its purpose on inquiring the social competences which forest kindergarten children develop at a forest as well as on a meaning of a forest itself which influences on children s social competences. The observation had taken place for twenty-one of age five children in twelves weeks from 11/29/2010 to 02/18/2011. The social competences that forest kindergarten children had developed at the forest and the characteristics of the forest are likely as followed. First, children developed their social competence by listening each other s stories very carefully in a vast area of the forest. Second, they constantly tried different plays with infinite number of methods that forest could provide and developed the social competence by negotiate new situations. Third, children looked after and tried to concentrate on each other s situations because they experienced together both challenges and risks that forest suggested. In conclusion, children developed their social competences in the forest which had no rules, no particular methods provided and no time limits. Moreover, whenever they encountered difficulties in the forest, they overcame those together by repeating the behavior of meeting and togetherness meaning that the social competences developed not individually but interactively.