Five points on the management of learning support projects as regional activities and current evaluation of the awareness of the mechanism of generational cycle

Abstract

This study focuses on the learning support project which is one of the typical activities led by local community residents and included within the regional alliance for the children and their family members who have difficulties. We have interviewed the persons in charge of five projects in local governments or steering bodies with semi- structured inquiries, especially to confirm the existence of the notions about the circulation or the role-sharing of generations for the business continuities and extracted five points for the evaluation: degree of participation to the management of project by the administration; operation styles; learning contents; range of regional alliance; attitude to utilizing senior supporters. At the survey period, these municipalities were looking for the suitable style corresponding to the regional peculiarities with verifying regional resources, regardless for the effective utilization of senior supporters. It was expected for the learning support projects to be controlled indirectly by the local administrations for the cautious operation, for example, assurance of continuity, deliberation of privacies, sharing good practices, or joint operation with another projects to provide whereabouts for children like as a free cafeteria.