著者

ビアルケ (當山) 千咲 青木 幸子

出版者

国際基督教大学

雑誌

教育研究 (ISSN:04523318)

巻号頁・発行日

no.47, pp.135-143, 2005-03

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In the changing society in postmodern age, it is becoming more necessary to focus on the individuals who assign meanings to their various experiences and construct the lives from their own unique point of view. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct a life story told by one woman in an autobiographical narrative interview and to consider the meanings of her experiences at school in the context of her whole life process. This analysis is based on the "Case-Mediated Approach" developed by S. Mizuno. Its primary task is a particular understanding of the case in question which should be followed by comparative analyses of other cases to approach the research objective. The case is analysed by focusing not only on main topics which are selected and arranged by the interviewee in a particular order, but also on changing perspectives over time from which the interviewee told her life story. Thus, her life story is elucidated by distinguishing the factual life process which consists of her experiences and actions in the past from her retrospective interpretation of her life. After this reconstruction, the following question is examined: which sustained effects do her experiences at school such as teacher-student-relationships and peer relationships have on the sequential process of her further life and how are these experiences embedded in the whole context of her social environment in each life stage? The analysis of an individual case presented here indicates the possibility to approach meanings of the school in a new way that has not been attempted by previous studies on school education.