教育行政研究の今日的課題から学校経営研究を考える(<特集>今日における教育経営学の意義と課題-教育経営概念及び研究の有効性と限界(3))

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The purpose of this paper is to think about school management research from the point of view of contemporary issues of educational administration research. This paper says that first, under the greatly changing environment over educational administration, the educational policy research becomes important as the method of the educational administration research, and second, there is some expectation that the necessity of the policy research in school management research increases from the contemporary issues of educational policy research. Though the educational administration research covers the three areas of policy, the law-institution, and management, the law-institution research was a center in a current research, and the policy research was insufficient. The reason is that theories of liberal democracy that value a political discussion under a minimum legal rule and controls the administration (bureaucrat) have influenced the educational administration research. One of the theories of liberal democracy is "model of law/politics". However, the transformation of a liberal democracy and the administrative reform by the political initiative requires a new way of a political discussion, and more transparent and fairer political discussion necessitates a policy research. Considering that the school reform with increasing participants under the decentralization of the educational administration made the process of school management more political, policy research becomes important in the school management research.