“나를 넘어선다는 것”

Transcending Myself: an educational meaning of becoming-parents in case of homeschooling

This paper aims to reveal an educational meaning of becoming-parents by understanding the lived-experiences of parents who adopts homeschooling instead of schooling in South Korea. In this paper, becoming-parents is conceptualized as a process of making one's children whoever is inferior to oneself by assuming the attitudes unique to 'parents.' As a result of analyzing the lived experiences of homeschooling parents in terms of becoming-parents, five experiences are described: facing one's child, standing one's anxiety, lifting one's curtain, growing oneself through the other, and recognizing one' limitation as a model. Also, as a result of interpreting these experiences from the perspective of education, three themes are revealed: taking responsibility of the other's face, being imitated and revealed by the other, and transcending beyond the limitations of parents. On the basis of these results, this paper argues that transcending oneself by becoming-parents is one of the ways of liberating oneself fettered by one's being, egoism, and totalitarianism and is no nother than becoming-teachers from the perspective of education.