Abstract
This study explores the career-choice processes of college students aspiring to be kindergarten teachers, focusing on stereotypical views of sciences and humanities. The study analyzed the records of semi-structured interviews with a modified grounded theory approach. As a result, we generated 38 concepts and 13 categories. The results showed that choosing sciences or humanities majors in high school and occupation selection are interrelated, leading to career choices. In addition, the “stereotypical view of sciences and humanities” and the process of forming a self-awareness of sciences and humanities impacted this background. Furthermore, these processes can be characterized as making negative choices. Therefore, it was shown that not only subjects in which students perform poorly, but also a negative self-awareness of “I am not one for sciences” formed under the influence of “stereotypical views of sciences and humanities” are behind “negatively choosing humanities courses.” In other words, it may be said to be an acquisition of a “Non-Science Identity.”
