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A Study on the Secondary Science Teachers' YouTuber Experience and Identity: Focusing on Foucault's Concept of Heterotopia

중등과학교사의 유튜버 경험과 정체성에 대한 연구 -푸코의 헤테로토피아 개념을 중심으로-

  • Received : 2022.09.19
  • Accepted : 2023.01.02
  • Published : 2022.12.31
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Abstract

This study is a qualitative case study of secondary science teachers who are doing educational activities in YouTube. In particular, this study attempts to interpret this case based on Foucault's concept of 'Heterotopia', which means a space that allows for private freedom or deviance by reflecting various utopias without the norms and constraints from every day or real space. Five secondary science teachers who voluntarily opened a personal channel on the YouTube platform and actively uploaded their own videos related to science education participated in the study. In order to understand the experiences of five secondary science teachers, data were individually collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews, and the collected data were analyzed using qualitative case study method. For valid interpretation of the study, we also referred to the video contents, teacher training materials, and teaching and learning materials produced by the participants. As a result of the study, seven themes were revealed: 'Desire for one's own unique educational activities,' 'Youtube as an extended classroom space,' 'Expanded network of relationships beyond the classroom barrier,' 'Satisfaction of desire for recognition and experience of identity as a YouTuber,' 'Tension between the educational space and the YouTube,' 'Space to be reborn as a craftsman,' and 'Finding one's own direction as a Teacher-YouTuber.' Given those findings, we found that the identity and desire of secondary science teachers, which were limited in the existing secondary schools and classrooms, was expanded in a new space called YouTube. In addition, we suggested that YouTube could be a space where science teachers can realize their own ideals and feel the joy. And simple regulating teacher's behavior in Youtube space only based on norms and standards shared in traditional educational space would rather hinder their healthy construction of identity and growth.

이 연구는 유튜브라는 공간에서 새롭게 교육활동을 하는 중등과학교사들에 대한 질적사례연구이다. 특히 이 연구는 생활세계 혹은 현실공간의 규범과 제약에서 벗어나, 다양한 이상향이 반영되어 사적 자유나 일탈을 가능케 해주는 공간을 의미하는 푸코의 '헤테로토피아'라는 개념을 중심으로 이 사례를 해석하고자 했다. 연구에는 최근 자발적으로 유튜브 플랫폼에 개인 채널을 개설하고, 과학 학습 관련 영상을 활발하게 올리는 현직 중등과학교사 5인이 참여했다. 5인의 중등과학교사들의 경험에 대한 이해를 위해 개별적으로 반구조적 심층면담을 통해 자료를 수집하였으며, 질적 사례 연구 기법을 활용하여 수집된 자료를 분석하였다. 연구의 타당한 해석을 위하여 참여자들이 제작한 영상 콘텐츠, 이들이 직접 제작한 교사연수자료 및 교수학습자료를 참조하였다. 연구 결과, '자신만의 고유한 교육활동에 대한 갈망', '확장된 교실 공간으로서의 유튜브', '교실의 장벽 너머로 확장된 관계망', '인정욕구의 충족과 유튜버로서의 정체성 경험', '전통적 교육공간과 유튜브 공간 사이의 긴장' '장인으로 거듭나기', '교사-유튜버로서 자신만의 방향 찾기'라는 크게 일곱 가지의 주제가 도출되었다. 이를 통해 기존의 중등학교와 교실 안에서 한정되던 중등과학교사의 정체성과 욕구가 유튜브라는 새로운 공간에서 확장되는 현상을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 유튜브는 과학교사들이 자신들만의 이상을 실현하고 즐거움을 느껴 볼 수 있는 공간이며, 이 공간 내에서의 행동을 일상 공간 속의 규범과 잣대로만 규제하는 것은 오히려 이들의 건전한 정체성 형성과 성장을 가로막는 일이 될 수 있음을 제언하였다.

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Acknowledgement

이 논문은 2019년 대한민국 교육부와 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임 (NRF-2019S1A5A8036581)

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