Border Crossing: Self-Identity of College Nursing Teachers from their Life Experience Narrative

• Main Authors: Hung, Hui-Chen, 洪慧真
• Other Authors: Chih-Cheng Hung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5tgqxj

博士 === 國立中正大學 === 課程研究所 === 102 === This study is based on contradictions about my teacher role, then invited another four teachers participated in this study. The aim of the study was to explore teachers’ self-identity problems that caused from crossing border to learn another discipline. Applying Group Narrative, including me, totally five college nursing teachers were recruited by theoretical sampling. Stories from participants, interviewing records, e-mail from colleagues, curriculum discussion records, and my reflective journals were collected and analyzed with holistic-content method from Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach & Zilber (1988). The trustworthiness of this study was built by transactional validity and transformational validity. Through read- interpreted-understanding process, we find the results and suggestions as follow： 1. College nursing teachers who learned another disciplines felt disrespect, distrust and could not recognized form the discipline arrangement systems and rules in school. 2. Higher Education focus on the specification, that why the participants recognized that college nursing teacher must graduate from nursing Master or PHD degree, or teacher will become “border” and “Others”. Border role brought self-identity contradictions to teachers. 3. College nursing teacher who were crossed border could not be recognized, that could be related to power of knowledge and to social control, also could be related to the historical contexts of nursing professional development. 4. After crossing border, nursing teacher changed their teaching, someone who learned educational disciplines would applied multiple teaching strategies enhanced teaching practice, someone who learned another disciplines would extend their teaching content. 5. College nursing teachers would be better to mix “métissage”, cross border in-and between disciplines, theories and practice, past-now and future, text book and life, present and hidden curriculum. 6. Crossing border would be good for college nursing teacher to be a philosopher who searches for the self-awareness in the dark, and an artist who release persistence and rigidness, searching for nursing esthetics within teachers and nursing students. 7. Mixed “Métissage” from border crossing would help nursing teacher to become a teacher of classics and a teacher of man. College nursing teacher who crossing borders would benefit them to become not only “a registered nurse” but also “a teacher”, and more… 8. Border crossing is not just inter-referenced within disciplines, but also consciousness awareness of nursing teachers. Crossing border help nursing teacher become “unskinning”, like entering “a third place” where teachers can reskinning. 9. Border crossing could be a teacher development, nursing teachers should construct their subjectiveness, aware their needs, and consider issues about “when” and “what” to cross, toward objective-directed border crossing. 10. The ideology of college nursing teacher from school culture would break through dualism in mono-degree and mixed degree. When we recognize that difference merged with nursing profession would bring a more genuine and beautiful nursing culture. 11. Because of contradictions from border, border crossers aroused themselves to exploring self and seeing present system or rules need revised in school. In order to release subjects from stratification and power oppress,“border crossing” would be a possibility. This study could be a reference for someone to know the challenges, when they made plan to cross border. To school, nursing education organization and a nursing director, have to consider en effect of border-crossing ideology. For faculty development centers, should think of what kind of support that teachers need when they have one profession or two mixed profession. For someone who already a border crosser, although becoming border, border vision make us find, recognize ourselves, and to be ourselves.