Discussions on ‘teachers’ rights have been limited in our country. The current discussion of teacher’s rights remains at the most passive level, focused on the legal measure to protect teachers human rights or infringement of educational activities and lacks a practical and active search on how education should be developed based on teacher s rights. In this regard, this study highlights ‘protection of teachers’ rights and the relevant policy making process focusing on the reason of the current passive discussion regarding teacher s rights. In particular, it studies the agenda building process for the protection of teachers rights by analyzing the relevant policy making process applying the Spore Model and analyzes the connection between the student s human rights policies and the teacher s rights protection policies.
The spore model is suitable for explaining the process how individuals exercise their influence in a democratic society. Therefore, analyzing the agenda building process regarding teachers rights through a spore model further reveals the causes and the process of the policy making such as the Teachers Status Act and the Teacher s Rights Protection Ordinance. In this light, this study addresses the reason for the current limited discussion on teacher s rights in the Korean society, suggesting that even though teacher s rights entails active and fundamental role of education and teachers, the agenda was built as a reaction to the student s human rights policies such as Students’ Human Rights Ordinance .