A Narrative Study On Career Development Of Graduates From Preschool Normal School

The preschool normal school used to be the main training institute for preschool teachers, and the graduates are an important force of the current preschool teaching staff in china. Research on career development of such a group can not only provide us with information about their current situation and future professional development, but also give us a better understanding of research on career development of Chinese preschool teacher and their working demands. In the meanwhile, by the "deep depict "of career development process of the sixteen 1990's graduates in a Middle China province, the study reveals the living state of this group in the context of social change. Moreover, it expands the vision of this field and has enriched the research field of career development.Therefore, 16 Graduates from preschool normal school in 1990's are enrolled in the study. Through the narrative inquiry method, the study aims at revealing the real, complex and diversified instructional practice and working out a whole picture of these graduates' career development in the context of social change. Through description of the process of career development by stages, this study gives prominence to critical events and confusion the graduates encountered in the process of their development, which a whole picture of the interviewees' career development processes are reproduced.Based on time and context, the conclusions demonstrate the career development process of 16 interviewees in over past ten years. The choice of their career is a choice made overlooking their individual subjectivity under the specific social context. The pre-service education, the reflection conclusion is its curriculum has instrumental rationality tendency .In the beginning of career, the graduates feel confused because of contradiction between their passions for working and their lack of working experience. After four or five years, the teachers come into a new stage in which they encountered childbearing and landslide crisis of preschool education cause, and therefore, they had job burnout as a lack of development space and motives. In the recent years, the specific group has been faced with the Bottle Neck of their career development. In the meanwhile, most of them turn pale at the mention of the existing or emerging safety incidents. From the interviewees' narratives of their career development, three types of working style after years' of professional development can be identified, that is, teachers who are satisfied with their career, teachers who merely work for work and teachers who have been tired of their career.Finally, based on the narratives of 16 interviewees' career development and theories of existentialism, female ethics and social role, the study tries to make discussion and reflection of career development of 90s preschool normal school graduates from three perspectives: Individual self-consciousness, the feminine special characters as well as the realization of self-value.