Abstract
This study aims to look at individual and unique aspects of an education-related welfare experience that single fathers experience in raising their children. Single fathers tend to be uncomfortable with sharing personal experiences and their personal situations are diverse and sensitive. Thus, a narrative inquiry method was applied accurately for analyzing the situation. To figure out the individual difficulties and unique contents of three research participants who became responsible for their livelihoods, parenting and education after becoming a single male parent through 'narrated-experience' was analyzed. Within the three-dimensional research space presented by Clandinin and Connelly(2007), this study focused on the time of experience, the ability to relate through communication(sociality), life inside and outside the home as the analytical space(place), and analyzed through the procedures of description, analysis, and interpretation presented by Wolcott. The results of this study are as follows. First, efforts to support child rearing expenses, education and living expenses, which are only provided to low-income single-parent families, need to be extended to general single-parent families. Second, education or measures are necessary to strengthen family capacity and continue lasting connection with schools or caring institutions. Third, there is a need to increase access to various schemes that help single-father families to stand on their own feet. Fourth, this study is meaningful in that it analyzed education-related welfare more personally and precisely by approaching single-father families with narratives.
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