2021 Volume 47 Pages 105-123
The purpose of this paper is to consider what is happening in today's crisis situation, and what are the challenges of educational administration in it. This paper regards the situation in which the basic concept on which educational administration has been based is as a state of crisis.
The legitimacy of decision-making is secured by the concept of sovereignty, which is the normative basis of all positive law of the state and the source of legitimacy that brings normativeness to governance. However, sovereignty and governance are often in conflict, and there is tension between them. Governance behavior tends to be self-reliant from the sovereignty that should underpin it. When the superiority of governance over sovereignty deepens, a situation called an "exceptional condition" occurs. The current situation can be regarded as an exceptional condition. An "exceptional condition" is a condition that does not fit into the legal order, and the problem is the relationship between law and reality. Reasonable judgment is important in such situations.
Legal norms are based on the purpose rationalism of forming order. Even if the purpose is to form an order that benefits all people based on universal values by reason, various phenomena can occur in order to embody it, and there irrational forces inevitably work.
In recent years, the post-truth situation has become a problem. It refers to situations where subjective perception is more important than objective facts. Information such as letters, photos, videos, etc. is being distributed to an overwhelming extent on social media, but this conveys not only a linguistic message that has undergone authenticity judgment, but also an image that appeals to emotions. This has created a situation where "real things", not reality, were "repeated" as an experience of "images".
The purpose of public education, such as the formation of national society and economic development, is clearly set, and education is carried out rationally and efficiently to achieve these goals. It is difficult for public education to be free from the purpose rationalism of realizing its philosophy. Education always has an emotional side. Since public education will be promoted from a rational point of view, it is necessary to question the limits of reason.
Today, the digitization of society is accelerating. As an example, digital textbooks are about to be introduced in school education. It will be necessary to carefully analyze how these changes in the environment will affect children's learning and growth.
When trying to realize today's institutional philosophy of public education, it is inevitable that there will be a gap between that philosophy and reality. It is necessary to ask how to perceive the gap between the idea and the reality. The issue of educational administration is whether or not it is possible to freely engage in public education from the purpose rationalism. Educational administration may need to work on the subject of elusive emotions. If it does so, the future task is to enrich the research of educational administration by exchanging with a wide range of academic research such as academic research targeting emotions and academic research targeting people.
