Parents as Enemy: Life History Research on South Korean Classroom Teach-ers' Changes of School lives and Teaching practices after Parents' Legal Of-fense

• 발행기관: Asian Qualitative Inquiry Association
• 저자명: Yeosun Yun Young Chun Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『Asian Qualitative Inquiry Journal』Vol.4 No.1, 85~99쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 복합학 > 학제간연구
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.06.30

국문 초록

This study explored how teachers’ lives are transformed through the lens of life history in response to excessive parental complaints. Through an analysis of the life histories of nine current elementary, middle, and high school teachers, the study examined the changes in teachers’ lives and educational practices following complaint experiences. The findings revealed the following: First, parental complaints fractured teachers’ professional identities, leading them to doubt their own peda-gogical judgment and autonomy. Second, such experiences constricted the relational structures in teachers’ everyday lives, fostering defensive and passive attitudes across all interpersonal relationships, including those with students, colleagues, administrators, and even in their personal lives. Third, the recurrence of complaints caused teachers to lose sight of the fundamental meaning of education. Rather than realizing educational values, teachers prioritized the prevention of com-plaints, resulting in a reduction of creative and inquiry-based lessons and a distorted limitation of learning opportunities in the classroom. Fourth, the emotional burnout caused by parental complaints contributed to a vicious cycle of parental monstrosity, teacher burnout, and growing distrust, ultimately generating secondary harms to students―namely, the re-duction of learning experiences, loss of opportunities for relational learning, and the weakening of emotional safety nets.

목차

The collapse of teacher authority by parents

Literature Review: Four social structures that create monster parents

Research method

Research result: Teachers’ lives after parental complaints

Conclusion

키워드

parental complaints infringement of teacher authority life history research professional identity emotional burnout ed-ucational community vicious cycle of complaints loss of educational meaning