A Perspective of Disaster Relief around Public Schools : From the background of asking "publicness"(Disater and Educational Administration)

Abstract

The serious damaged area by The East Japan Devastating Earthquake has been covered by "anxiety" for high professional decisions including nuclear power plants and also public educational management. Such decisions belong to "publicness" and are seen by the eye of incredulity. Tatsuo Inoue, political philosopher, suggests that we should ask for the reason, not domain, actor and procedure, of "publicness". Our society have been discussing on autonomous school management as "publicness". Now public schools are strongly asked to conduct at perfection in any emergency after 3.11.. It makes teachers and school staff "anxiety". As searching for autonomous school management, we should try to remove " anxiety" inside and outside schools. How did public schools act from 14:46 (during school hours) on 3.11 until the beginning of a new school year - I investigated four schools of the different context and damage. From the hearing about them, we can understand that each teacher independently judged and acted to rescue children and also refugees since their schools had became the municipality appointed shelter. Some local residents supported such teachers , although the municipal staff were to manage the shelter. It is crucial to recognize that such public schools' capability apparently served at the time of a disaster resembles the capability to perform autonomous curricula management while it includes sharing the purpose and the contents of learning with local residents. Also some guidelines over a disaster were revised. However they are not enough to take away the "anxiety" around schools. We ourselves should own how to survive from a disaster and administration should draw the direction. High professional decisions would not be perfect to assumption of a disaster. The autonomous citizen is needed. In such a social project, the importance of the autonomous curricula management with local community would be grown as action of asking the public reason.