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Habitus of Child Care Teachers for Young Children with Special Needs Through Stories About Nuri Curriculum Teacher Training: Focused on Teachers at D Specialized Child Care Center

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2019, 20(2), pp.123-143
  • DOI : 10.19049/JSPED.2019.20.2.05
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : May 9, 2019
  • Accepted : June 10, 2019
  • Published : June 30, 2019

Cho In-Yeong 1 Lee, Younwoo 1

1부경대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate perceptions and needs of child care teachers at specialized child care center for young children with special needs about current nuri curriculum teacher training. For the purpose, targeting child care teachers who have the experiences on nuri curriculum teacher training, their stories about teacher training were interpreted by the concept of habitus suggested by Pierre Bourdieu. The collected data from group focus interviews were analyzed by the process of constant comparative method. The teachers’ habitus is analyzed as follows. First, from the teachers’ stories about the overall process of nuri curriculum teacher training, the two habitus related to ‘the refusal in consciousness’ and ‘realistic acceptance’ was identified. The teachers for children with special needs felt resistance on meaningless teacher training. Second, the identified habitus from the stories about teachers’ satisfaction on teacher training was ‘heterogeneity’ and ‘fearness on inseparable obligation.’ The teachers felt that they are unable to incorporate into regular child care teachers and had complaints about a lack of appropriate educational guidance for them. Third, in the stories about improvement on nuri curriculum teacher training, the habitus of ‘visible alternatives’ was identified. The teachers hoped the implementation in a new form of nuri curriculum teacher training. Based on the findings of the study, the suggestions on development and implementation of teacher training program for child care teachers for young children with special needs were provided.

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