Subcontracted Mothering: A Discourse on Professionalism in Childcare in South Korea

Autor/inn/en	Lim, Minjung; Kim, Jinhee; Lee, Kyunghwa
Titel	Subcontracted Mothering: A Discourse on Professionalism in Childcare in South Korea
Quelle	In: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 29 (2021) 6, S.895-909 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lim, Minjung) ORCID (Kim, Jinhee) ORCID (Lee, Kyunghwa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-293X
DOI	10.1080/1350293X.2021.1985560
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Child Care; Professional Identity; Child Caregivers; Mothers; Professionalism; Caregiver Attitudes; Social Bias; Preschool Education; Employment Qualifications; Preschool Teachers; Individual Characteristics; Emotional Response; Caregiver Child Relationship; Stereotypes; Certification; Work Environment; Parent Attitudes; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Mother; Mutter; Professionalität; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschule; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Emotionales Verhalten; Klischee; Abschlusszeugnis; Zertifizierung; Arbeitsmilieu; Elternverhalten; Korea; Republik
Abstract	The provision of childcare has been prioritized by the South Korean government as a primary means of decelerating the dropping fertility rate and boosting women's employment by reducing the childrearing burden. Drawing on a Bakhtinian perspective, this study examined how discourses on professionalism and the professional identities of the childcare workforce are constructed in dialogic relation to the nation's childcare policies. A total of 18 childcare practitioners and mothers participated in qualitative interviews about the professionalism of the childcare workforce. The study revealed that the participating childcare practitioners and mothers valued emotional and relational caring as a core element of childcare professionalism, while simultaneously recognizing childcare as a job stigmatized by both low qualifications and poor working conditions. We discuss how these discourses on the professionalism of the childcare workforce both stand in tension with and appropriate the early childhood education and care policies in Korea. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01