ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

This study aims to understand some aspects of the college experience revealed through a narrative inquiry with a visually impaired college student, and to open up possibilities for becoming a "university for everyone". The participant in this research is a completely blind student who began his university life among sighted peers for the first time after graduating from a school for the blind during the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2021 to 2023, the researcher and the participant told and retold their college experiences in a narrative inquiry space, reliving their stories together. This study presents the narratives lived out by the researcher and the participant, centered on four resonant narrative threads: “the invisible college student”, “the university life that opens up through tapping and seeking”, “entanglements with useful or alienating technology”, and “dreaming of a possible future through learning from differences”. Furthermore, by tentatively tying up newly emerging questions during this process, the study seeks to open up other possibilities for the university stories we wish to live out. This narrative inquiry continuously questions who the unseen college students might be, suggesting that the use of technology in educational settings should be developed and applied in ways that are accessible and beneficial for all. Additionally, based on the discovery that universities can be communities that learn from each other's differences and change together, it is hoped that we will continuously imagine and create a university for everyone.

키워드