Service Provider and “No Accident”: A Study of Teachers’ Discipline Risk from the Perspective of Risk Society

Teachers face a high degree of risk when disciplining students in contemporary China. Under the guidance society theory, based on qualitative study teachers at county town school Southwest China, this paper finds that, context shifting responsibility for education from family to and inequal distribution system school, become primary taker. The culture teacher as service provider with unlimited responsibilities institution “No Accident” daily management supported by schools local government is constructing sense teachers. consequences risky events are unbearable most cases, so they have adopt limited discipline strategies focus avoidance. Reconceptualizing cooperative family–school relations reasonable allocation mechanism would be keys eliminating teachers’ conception risk.