TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Process of being a Teacher in a Reggio Emilia-Inspired Preschool: A Phenomenological Study
AB  - The current research aims to examine how Reggio Emiliainspired preschool teachers in Turkey make sense of being Reggio Emiliainspired teacher and what they experience during this process. In this research, one of the qualitative research methods, namely, Phenomenological Research Design, was used. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. In this study, 20 preschool teachers in Reggio Emilia-inspired schools located in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir provinces were included. Participants were determined using the purposeful sampling strategy. For data analysis, this research was conducted using the thematic analysis in which categories and codes were created upon similarities found in the data. The findings obtained in this study revealed that a teacher who was inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach experiences five stages of transformation. These stages were as follows, respectively: 1. Hearing the Reggio Emilia approach for the first time, 2. Affective reaction 3. Internalization 4. Comparison 5. Placement. Participants in the current research stated that being a Reggio Emiliainspired teacher was a pleasant, enjoyable, intensive process and an endless journey in which they helped children construct their knowledge.
AU  - AYDEMİR ÖZALP, Tuğba
AU  - İnan, Hatice Zeynep
DO  - 10.14689/enad.27.8
PY  - 2021
JO  - Eğitimde Nitel Araştırmalar Dergisi
VL  - 2021
IS  - 27
SN  - 2148-2624
SP  - 155
EP  - 181
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/473089
ER  -