본 연구는 획일화된 교사 전문성 개발 방식에서 벗어난, 어린이집 교사의 관심사 발달 특성과 조직 환경과의 역동성을 고려한 전문성 신장 방안 제시를 목적으로 액션러닝 기반 학습공동체에 참여한 다양한 경력단계에 있는 어린이집 교사들의 학습경험의 의미를 탐색해 보고자 하였다. 연구 참여자는 액션러닝 기반 학습공동체에 자발적으로 참여한 경험이 있는 B시 소재 어린이집 교사 4명으로, 반 구조화된 심층면담을 주 자료원으로 한 내용분석을 수행하였다. 연구결과, 학습공동체 활동 참여 동기나 활동 초기 교사들의 모습에서는 경력과 관심사에 따른 생존기 또는 성숙기 단계의 특징들이 뚜렷이 나타났으나 시간이 지남에 따라 점차 저경력 교사는 다양한 해결책과 교수전략들을 모색해 나가는 단계로, 경력 교사들은 자신들이 지닌 정답에서 보지 못했던 교수실제의 모습을 보다 본질적으로 이끌어내는 변화의 모습을 보였다. 또한 참여교사들 간 관계적, 의사소통적 효능감의 증진을 통해 상대방의 모습 속에서 타자화된 자신의 모습을 발견해 나가는 순환적이고 복합적인 전문성 발달의 양상을 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 연구결과를 통해 도구적 교수 효능감 증진이라는 전통적 교사교육의 한계를 벗어난 관계적, 의사소통적 효능감 증진의 가능성과 함께 학습공동체의 진정한 의미를 찾아볼 수 있었다.
The purpose of this study was to examine the meaning of learning experience among child care center teachers who participated in a learning community taking an action learning approach and whose career was all different. It was basically meant to discuss how to step up the professional development of child care center teachers in consideration of the dynamic relationship between the developmental characteristics of their concerns and organizational environments instead of merely sticking to stereotyped methods for the professional development of teachers. The participants in this study were four selected teachers in a child care center located in the city of B, who had spontaneously been members of a learning community that took an action learning approach. Semi-structured in- depth interviews were conducted to gather data, and a content analysis was made. As a result, there appeared marked characteristics of the survival or maturity stage in the teachers in early days in terms of motivation of participating in the learning community and according to their own career and concerns. With the lapse of time, however, the unexperienced teachers gradually moved onto a stage of seeking a wide variety of possible solutions or teaching strategies available, and the experienced teachers underwent a gradual change as well by finding out the nature of teaching, though they had just sticked to their own ways in the past. Moreover, the relational, communicative efficacy of the teachers was taken to another level, and they consequently found themselves in the looks of one another, which served to facilitate their professional development in a circulatory and complex manner. The findings of the study illustrate that it would be possible to boost the relational, communicative efficacy of teachers though typical teacher education just aims to improve their instrumental teacher efficacy, and suggest the true significance of a learning community.