A Qualitative Study On The Professional Life Of Kindergarten Teachers From The Perspective Of Space - Time Sociology

The professional life of preschool teachers’ is a new research field about the professional development of preschool teachers. It is also helpful and urgent to enhance the quality of childhood education.Currently,domestic and foreign research topics about teachers’ professional life are mostly refer to the connotation, characteristics and influence factors of teacher’s professional life, rarely refer to the topicality and integrity of preschool teacher’s professional life.To make up for the shortage of current research, This paper adopts the perspective of temporal and spatial sociology, using the qualitative research method, entering into the specific situation of education, discussing the preschool teachers’ professional lives through two dimensions of multi level time and space, summarizing and analyzing the preschool teachers’ professional lives. showing the real state preschool teachers professional life.Through the research, the following conclusions are drawn: The teacher is restricted by the time of the clock, the professional life is enslaved by the clock time;timetable exists as a system of time, on the one hand can help kindergarten teachers are more familiar with their own life, but also indirectly caused by preschool teachers’ professional life mechanically repeat, preschool teachers change the rich with challenging professional life to become repeat of the daily life;the events represented by major festivals can enrich the professional life of preschool teachers to a certain extent.In the space dimension, the main position of teachers’ professional life is the kindergarten, the material space will restrict the development of preschool teachers’ professional life, their behavior will be regulated by the cultural space such as the dominant or the invisible system,the thought consciousness also has the certain change due to the variety of relations and the relationship.On the basis of the research conclusion, summing up the cognition of preschool teachers’ professional life, analysising factors that influence the preschool teacher’s professional life,,putting forward suggestions about improving the preschoolteachers ’ professional lives from the aspects of temporal and spatial reorganization,reflecting on this research. In peroration part,good wishes were made to preschool teacher’ professional lives.