家長面對教育選擇權之機構俗民誌研究

The Institutional Ethnography of Parents in Facing School Choice

自教育券的概念提出之後，社會上就有一股聲音，主張透過教育券的使用讓教育回歸到市場機制，讓消費者來決定學校之去留，並藉此激發學校的競爭力，用以提升教學品質。此一概念開啟了家長教育選擇權的主張，並同時受到世界各國的重視，但教育選擇權的提出，卻也引發許多支持與反對之聲浪。\r但本研究並不在探究這些爭議，而是以機構俗民誌研究法，探究在教育選擇權的倡議下，不同場域的家長經歷教育選擇權的經驗。研究結果所得之六大類別，可用以說明家長面對教育選擇，在社會及教育組織下所受之統治關係(RULING)。此六大類別分別是：1.受規範的選擇(Ruled choice)；2.難以承受之負擔(Unbearable burden)；3.不甚透明的資訊(Lucentless information)；4.不可欲的選擇(Impermissible choice)；5.被動的改變(Noninitiative transformation)；6.普遍不甚贊同之氛圍(General disagreeable ethos)。

There was a demand from the society， since the concept of tuition vouchers was pioneered， which claimed that through the use of tuition vouchers， will result in the education back to market mechanism. In other words， it will hand the consumers the right to decide whether to stay or leave a certain school. Therefore， the competitiveness of schools can be elicited and the quality of the education can be therefore， improved thereafter. The concept that enlightened the parents’rights in school choice. Also， it dragged global attentions toward this topic also. However， the proposition of school choice both triggered advocacy and opponency at the same time.The purpose of this study however， is not to explore those controversies. The purpose of this study is to explore under the proposition of school choice， parents’， from different fields， experience of school choice through the construct of institutional ethnography. The conclusions of this research were drawn and were generalized into six categories to explain the 「RULING」relations of parents under the societal and educational organizations when they face school choice. Those six categories are:1.Ruled choice; 2.Unbearable burden; 3.Lucentless information; 4.Impermissible choice; 5. Noninitiative transformation; 6.General disagreeable ethos.