Children’s Absence in Studies on Maltreatment : Current Situation and Challenges of Research on Schoolteacher-to-student Interactions

マルトリートメント　ケンキュウ　ニ　オケル　コドモ　ノ　フザイ　ガッコウ　キョウシ　カラ　ジドウ　ヘノ　カカワリ　ニ　カンスル　ケンキュウ　ノ　ゲンジョウ　ト　コンゴ　ノ　カダイ

フジサカ, ノゾミ

Fujisaka, Nozomi

スクールハラスメント

教育虐待

サバルタン

Classroom maltreatment

School harassment

Educational abuse

subaltern

There are the concepts, such as maltreatment, that problematize teacher-to-student acts similar to psychological abuse and neglect not involving corporal punishment or indecent behavior. Although these acts possibly cause severe damage to children, little research has been carried out on this topic. This paper reviews previous studies on maltreatment in schools from the elementary to the high school level and presents the current situations and challenges of maltreatment research in Japan. This paper showed and associated two perspectives in Japan: To see maltreatment as harassment from a pedagogical or sociological perspective, and as abuse from a psychological or medical perspective. Referring to Spivak’s concept of subaltern, I also pointed out the absence of children in previous studies and suggested overcoming this problem by expressing oneself with an awareness of distance and unattainability from children.