The educational citizen association has raised a question about the inconsistency between their
ideal and reality of education, and has claimed the solution to the inconsistency. This study aims to
understand parents and citizen's participation activities in a educational citizen association. To achieve
these aims, with a case of ‘Yeoulhakbumohoe’(Yeoul parent association), I performed ethnographic
participation observation and interview as a research method.
Activists had the experience joining the student movement or the labor movement. As this
experience works on them, they participated the educational citizen movement. Participants joined
Yeoulhakbumohoe for various reasons. Some felt “dabdabham(heavy)” when they raise children in a
uneducational reality. Some got frustrated in interaction with teachers. Above all, the time when their
children entered school is a crucial moment of becoming a member of Yeoulhakbumohoe. They think
that they cannot solve the problem concerning educating their children all alone. Therefore, they feel
‘solidarity’ necessary from the bottom of their hearts.
Their activities is divided into two. One is named ‘the organizational activity’ that inspires
we-feelingness into members. The other is ‘the educational activity’ shaping the critical consciousness
through the educational lecture. Playing an active part in the educational citizen association, they
attain the identity of “Yeoulin.” According to attaining the identity of “Yeoulin”, the participants
become the subject of the educational citizen movement.