Abstract
The aim of this three year research project is to clarify changes of school organizations and to analyze emotion of teachers under the decentralization reform. This research project is significant as a study of educational administration in two aspects. One is to elucidate the impacts of decentralization reform on schools. After a decade of decentralization reform since the Comprehensive Decentralization Law, it should be investigated whether and how schools have been changed actually. The other is to study school organizations from the perspective of emotional labor. Teaching is a kind of emotional labor because teachers are expected certain emotions as part of their job. If teaching is characterized as emotional labor, school administration and management can be seen as emotional management. From such a point of view we will be able to recognize new realities of school organization and management. Though we are planning visiting schools, collecting documents, and interviewing teachers, in this session we aim at clearing up research questions and framework of the project in three aspects; review of researches on changes of school organization under the decentralization reform, review of the theory that integrate the notion of emotion into the study of school organization and reform, and report on actual change and emotional conditions of schools.
