School Sites Wavering in the Educational Reform(III) : Prescriptions for the School Sites Wavering

Abstract

At the end of 2006, the Fundamental Law of Education, which provides what the education in Japan for the period of post-war years should be, was amended. Now, the policy which relates to the reform of school education is placed as the most important issue of the policies in national and municipal governments. The Japanese citizen, national and municipal governments, and mass media etc. often criticize Japanese school education and its teachers, and insist that they change or be reformed. On the other hand, the school teachers who "are forged" or "bear" to reform, are in a severe condition on the point of human, material, and financial resources, so they cannot willingly get engaged in the reform. But, the people demanding that the school education and its teachers change or be reformed don't know or understand such conditions in school sites. In this year's study, the last year of a series of three year studies entitled as "School Sites Wavering in the Educational Reform", we discussed what prescriptions the educational administration researchers could present to the schools. The reporters are as follows. ・ From the side "swaying" the schools-Engaged in the planning stage of educational policies-(Ikuo KOMATSU : National Institute for Educational Research) ・ From the side "wavering (swayed)"(Masatoshi ONODA : Osaka University) ・ From the side "concerned" with the schools (2)(Toshitaka OKATOU: Hiroshima University) ・ From the side "concerned" with the schools (1) -Concerned with the school-sites as a consultant-(Shigeru AMAGASA: Chiba University)