초등학교 교사의 ‘교육적 만남’에 관한 내러티브 탐구

Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate the narrative of meetings among elementary school teachers and to find out their meaning. In order to achieve the objective of this study, the investigation was conducted using experiences of teachers’ past and present meetings with a focus on the narrative, and further research was conducted to look into the meaning which could be drawn from such experiences, regarding teaching life and view of teaching work. Three elementary school teachers participated as study participants. Interview methods comprised of preliminary questionnaire surveys, group interviews and individual interviews. Contents of the interviews were recorded using a voice recorder, with prior consent, and then transcribed; participants provided the feedback on the transcriptions. The following conclusion were drawn from the narrative of three elementary school teachers. First, meetings with teachers at the time other than school days create a special situation; meetings inside and outside school significantly acted as experience which has a significant influence over teaching life and view forming of teaching; and relational meetings are meant to be a chance for another meeting. Moreover, meaningful meetings of participants in the past acted as experience when forming the outlook of respective participants, also meaningful meetings in the present acted as an opportunity to re-interpretate the meaning of past memories. Having different meanings as such, meetings of teachers are an opportunity for them to reflect, examine, form and confirm their identity as a teacher.