Analiza konwersacyjna zebrań z rodzicami w szkole – jak tematyka zebrań konstruuje tożsamość szkolną rodzica
A conversational analysis of school parent meetings – how meeting topics constructs a parent’s school identity

Summary/Abstract: Aim. The purpose of the research I have undertaken on parent meetings is to reconstruct the ways in which the meetings affect the institutional (school) identity of parents. The specific goal is to seek answers to the question: what conversational strategies occur during the meeting, and what might be the effects of the strategies used during the meeting? Materials and methods. The research was conducted using the conversational analysis method (Silverman, 2009b; Perakyla, 2009). Through the prism of the topics taken up during meetings with parents, a reconstruction of the conversational strategies taken up during the meeting was made. Results and conclusion. The leading topics of the meeting were extracted: student achievements, trips, parent council elections, signatures, and fees. Five strategies of professional action of teachers during assemblies were reconstructed; the strategy of teacher monologue, the strategy of ironic naming of students, the strategy of obliging the parent to continually uphold the school at home, the strategy of involving parents in the “economic” issues of the classroom and school. The conclusions will present the institutional identities of parents constructed during the meeting conversation: parent as a spectator of the school performance, parent of the whole class, fearful parent, parent in a conflict of (dis)loyalty to their own child, parent in the role of students, parent helper, parent unnecessary expert.

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