{"id":2649,"date":"2015-05-20T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T03:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2015-06-02T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:54:35","slug":"religious-experience-and-professional-transition-a-study-of-a-preschool-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"Religious Experience and Professional Transition: A Study of a Preschool Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wan-Tun Huang<\/strong>
\nMiau- hueh Kindergarten\u00a0Kaohsiung, Taiwan
\nMing-Shiang Ni<\/strong>
\nGraduate Institute of\u00a0Early childhood Education,\u00a0National Chengchi University<\/p>\n

This paper used biographic research approach to examine how a preschool teacher viewed her own role as a teacher and the value of social context when going through the process of professional transition from working for a public kindergarten to a private Buddhistic one. \u201cNarrative interview\u201d developed by F. Sch\u00fctze\u2019s was adopted as the way of data collection, and \u201cinferential analysis\u201d ,created by R. Kokemohr\u2019s, was used as the analytic method to interpret the text and to reconstruct \u201cseek by the joy of mental enhancement\u201d as the subject\u2019s core purpose. The narrative flow revealed the dialectics of the preschool teacher\u2019s religious viewpoint and the professional perspective, as well as the construction of the profession picture when surpassed the limitation continually during the process of practicing ones ideal self-picture. Inspired by religious education, the teacher regarded \u201caltruism\u201d as her professional value and accomplished it by committing herself to moral education. In this way, she transformed her professional goal from seeking \u201cmaterial pleasure\u201d to \u201cultimate concern\u201d. The result also shows four steps of the preschool teacher\u2019s role-identification: \u201cto make use of an opportunity to gain one’s end\u201d, \u201cto reproduce the collective social ideology\u201d, \u201cto surpass oneself\u201d, and \u201cto be self-beneficiary and to be of beneficiary to others\u201d. The four steps tell us how the subject got involved in the career opportunity and fulfilled her new professional goal when encountering the restriction and the possibility within the process of interaction of oneself and the social world.<\/p>\n

Key words: biographic research, narrative interview, religious\u00a0experience, professional transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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