자녀교육지원활동에 나타난 학부모 문화 연구

Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to identify cultural characteristics of educational activities which parents created for their children, and 2) to find out how those characteristics were formed under what kinds of socio-cultural context. To meet the goals of this research, literature review and interviews were conducted. Interviews were conducted in Gwangju and Chonnam area. 17 informants participated in the interviews and the collected data were analyzed. According to the study, the socio-cultural contexts of parental culture are summarized as follows; First, A core element of parental culture was excessive valuing of academic background; parents supported children's education as a way to conform to the trend of excessive valuing of academic background. Their "supporting strategies" were different depending on the social status. Second, The more parents correlated social success with educational success, the more excessive valuing of academic background had influenced the culture. Parental supporting strategies tended to be polarized depending on the social status. Third, Parents worked individually or selfishly rather than working together with other parents in terms of education for their children. This study found out that the cultural themes, which inferred tacitly or explicitly with principles recurrent in the domains of supporting activities mentioned above, are "private education oriented", "initiating by mothers", and "depending on information". It is important to note that parental culture was segmented in accordance with social status. Therefore higher class parental culture can be characterized as strong "private education oriented", intensive "initiating by mothers" and "private control on information". In contrast, lower class parental culture can be characterized as weak "private education oriented", "child's autonomy", and "opened approach on information."