The Transformation of Preschool Teachers’ Identity in a Changing Society of Taiwan

• Main Author: 戴文青
• Other Authors: 馮朝霖
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19674560033533690607

博士 === 國立政治大學 === 教育研究所 === 98 === This dissertation attempts to fully describe Taiwanese preschool teachers’ identity and explores the possibility of their transformation in a changing society. It is hoped that this study provides ethical, social and political information for the reform of early childhood policy and achieves the core objectives of critical pedagogy, that is, the empowerment of individuality and society. This dissertation includes five chapters. The first chapter starts with the researcher’s personal experience as a teacher trainer, followed by her cultural reflections on being a preschool teacher under the educational reform movement and from the preschool site. The second chapter explains the theoretical framework from the perspectives of “the meaning and significance of identity”, “the dialogue among discourse, power, and identity”, “the political implications in education”, “the development of early childhood education in Taiwan”, and “the objectives of critical pedagogy”. Chapter Three reviews the related literature and explicates the theoretical frameworks of critical discourse analysis and specific research strategies as well. Chapter Four delineates data analyses and highlights the dialectical relationship between the subjectivity of preschool teachers and sociocultural context of Taiwan. Six modes of preschool teachers’ identity were emerged from text analysis. They were: (1) Why is the preschool education so tough? (2) Preschools interest me and so I work there. (3) I want to be a devoted teacher, (4) At the current workplace, I don't feel as carefree as I did at the previous workplace. (5) I don’t want to live this way, (6) Substitute teachers want to go “home”. These six modes were then analyzed in terms of different dimensions including “the organizational climate of daycare center”, “the framework and implementation of curriculum for preschool teacher education”, “the policy of early childhood education”, and “traditional cultural values”. The analysis was to explore the order of discourse and ideology underlying the preschool teachers who narrated their stories. Finally, Chapter Five presents discussions and suggestions for educational practice with three issues, namely, “reconstruction the framework and implementation of teacher education curriculum”, “the role of government in early childhood education”, and “activation of the mechanism for dialogue between all classes”.