| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 幼兒教育學系 === 98 === Retrospect of Twelve Years’ Teaching:
Narrative Inquiry of a Private Kindergarten Teacher
Abstract
This research involved Ms. Chin, a teacher who had been working at the same private kindergarten for 12 years, and aimed to probe into firstly the cause behind her contact with kindergarten education, secondly the reason for her long-term commitment to the same employer, and lastly the difficulties encountered as well as the solutions employed in the course of her teaching career. The research adopted the narrative inquiry method, collected data including interviews, observations, documents, and reflective journals. Member checking and triangulation were used to achieve trustworthiness.
The research found that Ms Chin’s stepping into the field of kindergarten education was a result of the National College Entrance Examination, i.e. she was admitted to a teachers college, majored in kindergarten education, and became fascinated. There were three reasons behind Ms Chin’s career decision: (1) personal features: children-loving, enthusiastic, earnest, and fond of making plans, (2) positive feedback: supports and approval from the directors and colleagues, trust from parents, and feedback from students, and (3) the kindergarten conditions: ideal location, acceptable salary systems, up-to-date facilities, and similar teaching concepts.
Difficulties encountered were: (1) certain conflicts among coworkers, (2) poor communication between parents and teachers, (3) teaching-related problems, (4) complicated work content, (5) easy to be ill, and (6) cannot look after both career and family at the same time. Ms. Chin’s solutions to the above-mentioned difficulties could be mainly categorized as psychological self-adjustment, problem-solving on her own, seeking others’ help, taking inservice education, and requesting administrative assistance from the authority.
Lastly, concrete suggestions were made according to the conclusions of the research to kindergarten teachers, kindergartens, and future researchers.
Keywords: job retaining, work motivation, private kindergarten teacher, teachers’ difficulties
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