Abstract
This study aims to clarify some of the changes in the management of staff meetings under postwar school administration policies. In the postwar period, various ways of managing staff meetings were explored. For example, the “school councils” in Aichi Prefecture were analogous to staff meetings and functioned as the “supreme decision-making body” of each school under the system in which the chairman was elected by mutual vote. However, it has been pointed out that the school administration policies of the 1950s to the 1970s brought about changes in the way staff meetings were managed. Previous studies have not fully clarified how the policies promoted from the 1950s to the 1970s were implemented in each region and what changes occurred in the management of staff meetings in each school. This study examines the changes in school councils in Aichi Prefecture from the 1950s to the 1970s as a case study. In conclusion, this study reveals that in Aichi Prefecture, struggles were observed between schools and prefectural boards of education over the succession of school councils and that the functions and management systems of school councils in each school gradually changed because of these struggles. Keywords: staff meetings, school administration policies, school councils, Aichi prefecture, postwar
