How shoulddo we interpret the pathological phenomenon phenomena of involving the teaching profession? Teaching as educational labor

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  • 教職の病理現象にどう向き合うか
  • キョウショク ノ ビョウリ ゲンショウ ニ ドウ ムキアウ カ
  • ──教育労働論の構築に向けて──

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<p>In recent years, temporary layoffs leaves of absence byof teachers owing to illness have been on the rise in our country Japan. While many previous studies have attempted to explain this phenomenon, few have provided achieved concrete results. In this paper, I point out that this is because teachers have hitherto not been viewed as government employees. Thus, this paper studies the above phenomenon by while considering teaching as a form of educational labor.<BR><BR>A brief description of the four main features of this paper is provided below:<BR><BR>1) I examine the teacher-client relationship as a clue to for understanding the concept of caring. This concept refers to considering someone as important and attending to his/or her needs. Nurturing is an activity that was traditionally performed in various communities and was interpreted in the same way as caring for family members. Today, relationships that involve nurturing activities can still be observed between teachers and students, to the extent that they have become an integral part of occupations in modern times. This is the reason that emotions and feelings are regarded as important in educational relationships and discussions.<BR><BR>2) I show that the concept of emotional labor is useful in studying the teaching profession. This concept focuses mainly on the emotional relationship between an emotional workers and theira clients. However, more importantly, it shows that in the modern service sector, an the employer exploits employees not only through physical labor but also through emotional labor, and the teaching profession is not an exception.<BR><BR>3) The Japanese government has promoted carried out educational reforms guided by neoliberal and quasimarket ideas as a part of public employee reforms.<BR><BR>Through these reforms, the government has strengthens strengthened its control as an employer over the teaching sector. It urges thehas urged prefectural boards of education to make efforts to establish a new teacher evaluation systems and to improve the existing teacher appointment systems. Teachers are expected to work as members of a bureaucratic organization rather than a professional organization.<BR><BR>4) Furthermore, the teaching profession faces a big major problem: there is no group or organization that can protest against the exploitation of teachers, as can be seen from the failure of the teachersʼ unions.<BR><BR>Thus, this paper argues that both teachers and researchers in this field should need to realize open their eyes to the actual situation wherein teachers work as public employees. Further, researchers in the field of educational sociology researchers should make theoretical contributions so that teachers are can gain the abilityable to understand their working conditions.</p>

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