保護者の学校教育に対する意識と学校関与意欲の関係 : 小・中学校の保護者調査を通して

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In the recent educational reform, school, family, community partnership is emphasized in papers of various advisory committees. But many schools in Japan have closed the doors to parents and residents for a long time. It is easy to say that school should open, but difficult to realize it. At least, next three conditions are needed for partnership. They are 1) change of teachers' consciousness, 2) parents' active concern and participation, 3) support by community. Main purposes of this paper are to clarify the parents' evaluation to school that their child attend, composition of parents' consciousness to school education and the relation between these factors and parents' desire to participate to school. To perform these purposes, we practiced questionnaire survey. 3,322 responses of 12 elementary schools and 8 junior high schools, located at big city, urban area and local area, were analyzed. Research findings are as follows: 1) Although the parents' desire to participate to the school differs by the category, it is generally high. They want to get more informations about school activities, and to become friendly with teachers. But the parents do not want to participate in the organizational activities of a school. It means that parents are audiences, but not independent partners. 2) We were thinking to be able to catch the parents' consciousness with elements of 'independence', 'reliance' and 'secession'. As a result of factor analysis, next three factors were found, 'support for school' 'reliance to school' and 'aiming for a high academic career'. Our hypothesis was not proven. Items of question should be reconsidered. 3) These new factors affect the parents' desire of participation. The parents who support school actually, and aim for a high academic career for their children have high desire of participation. 4) Although the bad information of schools tends to be poured through mass media, many parents evaluate their children's school affirmatively. As the parents evaluate the school more affirmatively, the parents' desire of participation becomes higher except parents who rely to school excessively. As a result of survey, we can conclude that there is potential possibility for school, family, community partnership, but we must overcome many barriers to realize it inJapan.