1999 Volume 41 Pages 31-43
The objective of the paper is to print out the direction of her school systems supported by activation of locally available educational resources. The back ground behind the higher weight of school and local community link through "activation of local resource" and "school supporting system" are; (1) Awareness of the limitation of qualitative and quantitative limitation. (2) Trend of educational realizes in relation with the turn over of "School Knowledge". (3) Stronger localism against directive from its center. (4) Request for the actual use of studied items in lifelong learning. It is appropriate to interpret broadly that the local educational resources means it exist in local community and it is consisted of locally unique-people, products, facilities, places, activities, sales, information and wisdom which are purposely used for effective educational activities and school management at each school. There are various view points on how to apply local educational resources as listed bellow; Namely: select best suited resource to match the needs of educational curriculum, flexible arrangement of curriculum, and also from the view points of optimizing guidance method to take best advantage of available resources. Lastly the points were made with respect to problem areas for further review, 1. At elementary school, the magnitude of the introduction of actual life need to be studied. 2. Currently, there is no requirement for the leaderships when local people conduct classes. 3. Educational effectiveness is not clearly established with respect to using local people from leaderships view point which relates to item (2) 4. Activating local uniqueness of the resource can results in educational gap. 5. Under the policy of "Establishing open school", this local link and activating local resources may likely result in first for the purpose only. Items pointed out as aforementioned contain. Problem areas with respect to future school support system.
