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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the parental responsibilities for student guidance and discipline by interpretative
epistemology of administration law from a Collaboration Duty Perspective. First, it explains the attributes of student
guidance and discipline. Second, it discusses the parental rights and responsibilities for children. Third, it explores the
theoretical foundations of parental collaboration duty. Finally, it makes some recommendations to practitioners and
policymakers for future amendments of related laws and regulations.
 
Design/methodology/approach
Literature review and law hermeneutics are employed to discuss the abovementioned problems from a Collaboration
Duty Perspective.
 
Findings
Research findings are: 1. The nature of Student Guidance and Discipline is both the practices of teachers’ rights to
student discipline and parents’ rights to education participation. 2. The foundations of jurisprudence to the Parental
Collaboration Duty for Student Guidance and Discipline are the essence theory of Education Basic Law, the Parental
Collaboration Duty theory, and partnership theory. 3. The parental rights and responsibilities for student guidance and
discipline include the altruistic rights to help their children and the responsibilities for helping their children to secure
the rights to learn. 4. The state- of- the- art Parental Collaboration Duty for Student Guidance and Discipline is not good
enough, andeducation in the near future.
 
Originality/value
This study holistically explicates the Parental Responsibility for Student Guidance and Discipline from a Collaboration
Duty Perspective, and shows its originality in research methodology. Moreover, the results have the potential of high
reference values for education policymakers and school teachers in Taiwan.
 
 
 
 
 
Author: 
Author Description: 
Associate Professor, Center for Teacher Education, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan
APA: 
Wang, D.-Y. (2017). The parental duty of student guidance and discipline in primary and junior high school: A collaboration duty perspective. Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly,25(3), 41-70.