경력전환 중년여성의 평생학습과 정체성 재구성과정에 관한 내러티브 탐구 : 항공사 승무원 출신을 중심으로
A Narrative Inquiry into the Lifelong Learning and Identity Reconstruction of Middle-aged Women in Career Transition : Focusing on Former Airline Flight Attendants
- 주제(키워드) 경력전환 , 중년여성 , 전직 항공사 승무원 , 전환학습 , 정체성 재구성 , 평생학습 , Career transition , Middle-aged women , Former airline flight attendants , Transformative learning , Identity reconstruction , Lifelong learning
- 발행기관 서강대학교 교육대학원
- 지도교수 양미경
- 발행년도 2026
- 학위수여년월 2026. 8
- 학위명 석사
- 학과 및 전공 교육대학원 평생교육·코칭
- 세부분야 해당없음
- 실제URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/sogang/000000083103
- UCI I804:11029-000000083103
- 본문언어 한국어
- 저작권 논문은 저작권에 의해 보호받습니다.
초록(요약문)
The purpose of this study is to explore the career transition process of middle-aged women who formerly worked as airline flight attendants—a profession that requires high levels of relational skills and crisis management. Employing a narrative inquiry approach, the research examines how these women reconstruct their identities through lifelong learning. For women with this specific occupational background, navigating a life transition after resignation is not merely about changing jobs or seeking economic stability. Rather, it is a complex developmental trajectory wherein they redefine their past meaning perspectives and proactively design new lives. To this end, purposive sampling was used to conduct in-depth interviews with four women in their 40s and 50s who had over 10 years of flight experience and attempted career transitions into new fields post-resignation. The collected data were analyzed using an integrated approach that cross-examined Clandinin and Connelly’s three-dimensional narrative inquiry space （temporality, sociality, and place） with Mezirow’s transformative learning theory and Schlossberg’s 4S transition model. The core findings of this study are as follows: First, immediately following their resignation, the participants experienced a disorienting dilemma as they moved away from familiar organizational structures and transitioned into new roles in unfamiliar environments. However, by critically reflecting on their prior professional experiences, they successfully reinterpreted these experiences not as a disconnected past, but as unique internal resources and relational expertise necessary for forging a new life path. Second, during this period of transition, the participants actively built multidimensional support networks—including family, academic advisors, and learning communities—while executing proactive lifelong learning strategies. The learning trajectory they chose was not merely an instrumental means for re-employment or external rewards. Instead, it developed into a driving force for personal growth, grounded in a highly internalized motivation to pursue intellectual curiosity and the joy of learning itself. Third, as a result of such transformative learning, the participants successfully moved beyond socially prescribed identities. They firmly reconstructed their identities as independent educational subjects who continuously renew their lives, enjoy learning, and autonomously plan their own life trajectories. In conclusion, this study establishes that the career transition of middle-aged women is not merely an adaptive response to environmental changes, but an existential growth trajectory in which they autonomously integrate their identities through proactive lifelong learning. Through these findings, this research aims to contribute to a qualitative paradigm shift in lifelong education and the expansion of practical discourses to support the proactive career development of adult learners facing life transitions.
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Abstract
I. 서론 1
1. 연구의 필요성과 목적 ---------------------------------------------1
2. 연구 문제 -------------------------------------------------------4
3. 용어의 정의 -----------------------------------------------------5
4. 연구의 제한점 ---------------------------------------------------7
II. 이론적 배경 -----------------------------------------------------9
1. 평생학습 맥락에서의 전환학습과 정체성 재구성 ------------ ----------9
2. 전환 적응 모델의 구조와 4S 체계 분석 -----------------------------14
3. 중년여성의 생애 전환과 경력 재설계 -------------------------------21
4. 항공사 승무원의 직업 문화와 정체성 ------------------------------25
III. 연구 방법 및 절차 -----------------------------------------------31
1. 연구 설계 ------------------------------------------------------32
2. 연구의 분석 틀 -------------------------------------------------33
3. 연구 참여자 ----------------------------------------------------36
4. 자료 수집 ------------------------------------------------------40
5. 자료 분석 ------------------------------------------------------45
6. 연구의 진실성 확보와 윤리적 고려 ---------------------------------53
IV. 연구 결과 ------------------------------------------------------56
1. 경력전환의 위기 촉발 맥락과 평생학습 진입과정 --------------------- 56
2. 경력전환 과정의 자원 및 제약 요인 -------------------------------- 65
3. 평생학습을 통한 정체성 해체와 의미 체계 재구성 --------------------71
4. 종합 논의: 3차원 내러티브 공간과 4S 체계의 통합적 이해 ------------76
V. 결론 및 제언 ----------------------------------------------------80
1. 요약 및 결론 ----------------------------------------------------80
2. 제언 ----------------------------------------------------------82
참고 문헌 --------------------------------------------------------85
국문 초록 --------------------------------------------------------90
부록 -------------------------------------------------------------92
