英文摘要 |
Kindergarteners' parents are considered as the most potential learners in the filed of parenting education. For the purpose of developing the ”partnership” between family and community, kindergarten teachers have to take the responsibility for popularizing this key task of parenting education. In order to execute this task, whether these teachers possess appropriate knowledge and ability in parenting education becomes an important issue. In fact, senior kindergarten teachers accumulate certain amount of experience in dealing with parenting education. The cultivation of their capability on adjusting frustrations while facing parents or community members and its developmental process are valuable for all kindergarten teachers and teacher educators in early childhood education. Accordingly, a narrative research approach was applied in this one-year qualitative study for exploring senior kindergarten teachers' knowledge in parenting education. The developmental process of these targeted teachers and it characteristics were also examined simultaneously. Five senior kindergarten teachers' with more than eight-year teaching experience in five kindergartens of Taichung area were selected purposefully to participate in this study. Semi-structured interviews were mainly used for gathering the data associated with related documents in the process of implementing parenting education and the teacher-parents activity, where the researchers served as the role of observer-as-participant.Based on the research findings, the developmental process of these senior kindergarten teachers' knowledge in parenting education was generalized and presented as a stage model, which included three stages: ”groping stage”, ”transitional stage”, and ”mastery stage”. Further, since the pace of every participant's development was different, the characteristics exhibited in each stage of all participants were presented in three dimensions: psychological nature, instructional rationale, and teaching performance, instead of using general and fixed factors (i.e. years of teaching experience). According to the data analysis, five senior kindergarten teachers had similar developmental processes, which showed that they all went through the three stages but with their own and flexible range of years of teaching experience. It also showed that they had different kinds of psychological nature, instructional rationale, and teaching performance in each stage. |