| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 95 === Abstract
This study used narrative inquiry to explore one's own kindergarten teacher career development. The study presented the teacher’s understanding of educational beliefs, the roles of teacher’s attitude, and the influential factors of teacher’s educational beliefs.
The findings of this study were:
1. The stages of the researcher’s career development were divided as the stage of emergence, the stage of beginning, the stage of adjustment, the stage of turbulence, the stage of stability and the stage of elaboration. However, constantly receiving training and keeping researching at the last stage of one’s career made it the best time to pursue the professional development in one’s career. This result was different from the other related studies.
2. The teacher’s educational beliefs and roles in each stage were as following:
Educational beliefs in the stage of emergence
a) Children are God's blessings. Their lives are precious and valuable.
b) To educate children with abundant love and not change their lives.
c) Teachers’ responsibility is to help children develop healthy bodies and minds.
d) Teachers have to respect each child, teach children in accordance with their aptitude, and provide them with creative surroundings.
Educational beliefs in the stages of beginning, adjustment, and turbulence
a) To help children develop healthy bodies and minds by providing happy learning experiences for them.
b) To let children learn naturally.
c) To respect individual differences and be serious to children.
d) To fulfill the responsibility of planning the environment for children.
Educational beliefs in the stage of stability
a) To provide children with diverse learning experiences.
b) To develop courses based on the interests of children.
c) To let children explore freely.
Educational beliefs in the stage of elaboration
a) Once teachers stop making progress, they will be eliminated.
b) To explore with children.
c) To activate teaching and make teaching more lively.
d) To continuously promote the competence and advancement.
e) Teachers are children’s scaffold.
f) To adjust teaching methods and inspire children’s potentials.
3. The factors which influence one’s own educational beliefs were those significant people and career environments. Parents, peers and teachers were the significant people. And the environmental factor included religious environment, different public and private kindergartens, and educational contexts in different stages.
The last section of this study summarized significances of the self-exploratory experiences, and described one’s self-expectations and research meanings to readers.
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