본 연구는 유아교사와 한부모 가정 유아의 양육자의 소통 과정을 이해하고자 실시되었다. 이러한 연구목적을 위해 한부모 가정 유아를 담당한 경험이 있는 공립유치원교사 10명을 대상으로 심층면담을 실시하였다. Strauss와 Corbin(1998)의 근거이론에 따른 자료분석 결과, 총 18개의 상위범주와 33개의 하위범주가 추출되었다. 중심현상은 ‘한부모 가정 양육자와의 소통의 어려움’이었으며 교사와 한부모 가정 유아의 양육자간의 의사소통은 신뢰획득 단계, 경청 단계, 소통유도 단계, 적극적 소통단계를 거쳤다. 핵심범주는 ‘한부모가정 양육자의 교육적 역할 이끌어내기’였으며, 유형분석 결과 ‘만족형’과 ‘좌절형’의 두 가지 유형으로 나타났다.
This study was conducted to examine the process of communication between the caretaker of single parent family and a kindergarten teacher. We had qualitative in-depth interviews with 10 kindergarten teachers who taught children from single parent family. The data were analyzed by the grounded theory method proposed by Strauss and Corbin. When raw data obtained from the in depth interviews with the participants were processed through open coding by the continuous comparison method, a total of 16 main categories, 33 subcategories were extracted. In summary, core phenomenon was the difficulty of comunication between Caretakers of Single Parent families and kindergarten teacher. Participants experienced ‘the step of gaining confidence’, ‘the step of listening to the cartaker’, ‘the step of inducing the caretaker in communication’, ‘the step of communicating with caretaker positively step’ in order. The key category is inducing the educational role of caretaker and from the results of type analysis were identified two types, that is, ‘gaining satisfaction in communication with caretaker type’, ‘gaining frustration in communication with caretaker type’.