英文摘要 |
This study aims to explore the journey of action research on how Chinese New Year cultural activities assist a pre-service preschool educator in improving her interactions with her grandmother. In this study, the action research method was adopted and 13 sessions of Chinese New Year cultural activities were conducted from January 27 to February 11, 2022, each lasting approximately one hour. The activities featured the themes of customs, worships, cookery, and retrospection, carried out in such forms as arts and crafts, cooking, calligraphy, and self-produced musicals, with the aim of enhancing the interactions between the researcher and her grandmother. This study used the triangulation of data and personnel to establish research reliability, and employed descriptive and explanatory validity as research validity. Further, data analysis was performed using the reflective thematic analysis approach. Throughout the activities, the researcher and her grandmother went through four stages: the honeymoon period, the stagnation period, the period of resolving misunderstandings, and the reconciliation period. According to the results of the Chinese New Year cultural activities scale, the grandparentgrandchild interactions between the two people after the activities were found to show a trend of improvement on the whole, their modes of interactions transforming from silence to positive and gentle transaction. The grandmother and grandchild became able to care for each other. Through this action research journey, the researcher realized that her strikingly different personality from her grandmother’s was the key to their conflict, and discovered through reflections that she herself was the real source of the interaction problem. The researcher also recognized that she, as a granddaughter, should appreciate the hard work of her grandmother. The grandmother and grandchild made a gradual approach to the sixth stage of intimacy development and the eighth stage of self-integrity in Erikson’s (1994) Psychosocial Development Theory. At the same time, there was a gradual conversion from resistant and avoidant attachment to secure attachment in Ainsworth et al.’s (1978) Attachment Theory. Finally, based on the research results, this study proposes recommendations for the reference of schools, related organizations, and future related research. |