Abstract
There offered many types of analytic frameworks which enable us to understand the phenomena of educational pathology organically. Although there are many differences in the perspective of the methods of classification such as individual vs. group, these frameworks have a common assumption that pathological phenomena are the results of the dysfunction of education.
On the other hand, there exists another theoretical standpoint that explains social change as a fundamental mechanism which discloses those phenomena. W.F. Ogburn, having formed an adequate conception of “Cultural Lag”, formulated an idea that different rates of progress among spheres of cultural system cause some serious problems of lags. Having followed the model of Ogburn's, R.G.Corwin developed the theory of educational lags.
In this study, the writer defines two types of educational lags namely input lags and output lags in keeping with the theory of Corwin's. Assuming “policy” as the agency that especially exerts a dominant influence upon education, the writer also analyzes over a period of three decades since the World War II in the light of the two types of educational lags.
To begin with, basing on “Input Lag” type, the writer attempts to make the quality of educational resources including the environment of education as a subject matter of study. The writer, therefore, focuses on the lags between the input variables and economic system, and also gives his diagnosis of the degree of lags with the aid of multiple-regression analysis. On the contrary, in considering the “Output Lag” type, the writer takes stock of a situation in which input variables after passing through the educational process transform themselves into some outcomes not in keeping with the original objectives. For example, the diversification of high school courses aiming at quick training of skilled laborers have produced many human talents which soon became obsolete. This phenomenon is institutional lag which originates form the lack of long term prospects in the fields of education.
