Reconstruction of Childcare Practices in Teacher Conferences :

The Role of "Change Agents" and the Structure of Teacher Conferences

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the structure of teacher conferences where teachers have the opportunity to reflect on their personal childcare practices and consider the frameworks in which these practices occur. During teacher conferences, the author analyzed the content of teacher questions and examined how these questions worked as change agents to transform the teachers' childcare practices. The change agents included fundamental questions about their own frameworks of childcare based on their experience. The result suggests that the change agent plays an effective role to reconsider and improve their childcare practices. It is clear that an effective teacher conference has a structure based on an essential intention to support teacher reflection on their personal childcare practices.