Summary: | 碩士 === 世新大學 === 資訊傳播學研究所(含碩專班) === 103 === With the publishing of laws and changes to social atmosphere, parents’ participation in their children’s education is increasing day by day. Communication between parents and teachers has become more frequent. It is difficult to avoid conflicts from parent-teacher communication, and it is imperative to find resolutions to these conflicts and to improve teachers’ enthusiasm towards their profession.
This study based on elementary school teachers in Sanxia and Yingge District used a survey as a method to collect data. According to the results of this study, teachers are used to using a cooperative posture as coping strategies for parent-teacher conflicts – resolving conflicts in a positive and gentle way. They seldom use an avoidance posture as coping strategies. There are obvious differences on coping strategies for teachers depending on variables such as age, marital status, teaching experience, and grade level. The teaching enthusiasm of elementary school teachers is above the average, and they received the highest score for the “Caring for Students” criteria. There are obvious differences on teaching enthusiasm for teachers depending on variables such as age, marital status, teaching experience, grade level, and educational background.
Coping strategies for parent-teacher conflicts has obvious effects on teaching enthusiasm. Using a cooperative or compromising posture could improve teaching enthusiasm, but taking a dominant or avoiding posture could lead to a decrease.
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