Study On The Role Conflict Of Law Teachers

According to its historical formation process and the currently requirement of their role norms, the law teachers situated themselves at the intersection point of the four fields of education, scientific research, public decision and legal practice, and the development and evolution of their role could reflect the macroscopic development of the legal professional community or even the structure of state administration. However, facing the historical opportunities of the construction of rule of law in our nation, the law teachers land in some predicaments such as the declining of their social recognition, the weakening of their Public influence and their self-treated as craftsman. And the role conflicts could be the basic reason which leads to those predicaments.Role conflict is an important concept of the role theories in the studies of social sciences, so that there are many researches about role conflicts in all the fields of sociology, pedagogy and psychology both at home and abroad. But no study has been provided directly related to the role conflicts of the law teachers. Based on an investigation of larger samples, the following assumptions are attempted to be verified:There is sharp conflict between the role play practice and the role expectation of the law teachers; The role conflicts mentioned above manifest as both interrole conflict and conflict between deferent roles; The role conflicts mentioned above leads to those predicaments we have noticed; By reasonable roles reconstruction, The role conflicts of law teacher could be reduced and the role expectation could be achieved.There are10legal colleges or legal departments in the city of Tianjin in which more than210teachers are acting as full-time educators. Our investigation involves five major group including law teachers, legal college students, members of legal professional community, members of public authority and other social subjects. Among the972subjects who have given effective answers to questionnaire survey, there are98subjects accepted interview and shared their opinions. Based on the data statistics and the comparative analysis, the models of law teachers’role expectation and role play practice have been established, in which education, legal science research, public decision and legal practice are the four prime values to measure the role of law teachers.Comparing the tow models mentioned above, the assumption that the law teachers are facing the role conflicts has been confirmed, and that is the very reason leading to the predicaments which had been noticed. Multi-level reasons result in those role conflicts of law teachers. Therefore, the reconstruction of it also should be completed in multiple perspectives.Starting from discussing the imbalance between the tow prime resources in the public decision field, the social structural causes, institutional causes and personal causes of the law teachers’role conflicts have been analyzed at all the macroscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic levels. By the improvement of legal educational idea, orientation of talent cultivation, entry qualifications of law teachers, teaching methods and evaluation criterion, a more ideal law teacher group could be excepted in the China’s constitutionality courses.