都市型老人大学の社会的機能に関する調査研究

―教育行政系老人大学と福祉行政系老人大学の対比―

抄録

  In 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a college, which have been labelled Elderly Colleges, in both from educational policy streams and welfare policy streams. These new colleges appeared mainly in urban areas or at the prefectural level. The purpose of this article is to clarify the social function (or similarities/differences) of these Colleges by means of a questionaire survey of attendees.

  Surveys with same questionaires were conducted in Nishinomiya City Elderly College (educational type) and the Elderly College of Osaka Prefecture (welfare type). The main points detected are as follows :

  1) People who made new friendship ties in the College were more likely to show positive attitudes toward the College.

  2) Purposeful attendees were more likely to possess positive evaluations for the College.

  3) Continuity of attending and learning had to do with positive attitudes toward the College.

  4) Functions of learning itself are highly valued for the evaluations of the educational type College, whereas for welfare type College reconstruction of human relations is highly valued.