| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 社會與區域發展學系碩士班 === 102 === This abstract was written on a winter solstice. The past few days were like the weather was repaying the coldness that was owed this year. It was freezing! Perhaps it was also the perfect time to write an abstract: using the coldness to refine the green liveness and see what was left.
As the title indicated, this is about a feminist elementary school teacher, after becoming a mother, suddenly discovered that her life has made a huge turn because of her children. She looks back her life as a mother and also gazes her career and family before her. When being a graduate student presents the opportunity of finding the important links in life, feminism, motherhood and teaching career are here to transform and spin.
That person is me.The stories continues lively.
This thesis is divided into six sections. Like a movie, the beginning is about creating a certain atmosphere. It emits the fundamental odor, which you will sense disorder, hotchpotch, stain and waste. That establishs the appropriate expectations about this theis. (In other words, do not expect profound analysis or rigid structures.)
The second section is a survey of current research papers. This section is further divided into two parts. The first part focuses on motherhood related research. The second part focuses on the search of myself: a survey of the background that I was raised. Through my grandmother, my mother and two delirious women in my vilige, the way that I make decisions and how I look at the world is established.
The third section discusses my motherhood. The state before becoming a mother is compared with the after with a sharp contrast, showing how dreadful a mother can be. After becoming a mother, this role passes through your soul, splits your character, subvert your value and erodes your fortune. When you start feeling alienated to yourself, you still praise and salute it. Through this section, I learn to appreciate this change and feel grateful for my husband who has also experienced this change firsthand. However, it also reminds me to be cautious and not to be lost or miss this role transfer.
The fourth section is about my teaching career. Since motherhood could change life in such a dramatic way, so could a teaching job. Here shows the inspiration that I got from my children. After equipped with the sharp perceptions of a mother, I also starts to see things from different angles and notice more dark corners.
The fifth section is about “spin”. When feminism, motherhood and teaching career emerge from life, there follows many reflections and dialectics. Accompanied with questioning, thinking and discussing, focus starts to jump and drift. Life’s possibility is then expanded or shrunk. Here, the process of questioning and thinking is more important than the emerge of answers. One answer comes up and quickly being pulled down by another question. Pursuing and being pursued, in a softer tone, is just like a beautiful spin.
The final section is about the structure and method applied in this thesis. “Narrative inquiry” is the name of the method, but why? A narrative structure presents the fundamental texture and tone of this thesis. Responding to the odor in the first section, the whole thesis driven by motherhood has to be broken, transboundary and venturous. Finally, it becomes a sad, joyful, disordered and painful thesis that you are about to read.
This is just an abstract.
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