An Empirical Study on the legislating process of the Vocational Education Promotion Law : on the study from the perspective of the finance and administration of vocational education in upper secondary level school after World War 2

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to clarify the process of passing the bill for The Vocational Education Promotion Law, especially the circumstances and the issues of drawing up it. The findings are as follows: 1) The movement of legislating a vocational education law began on the occasion for Report on Japan Taxation by the Shoup Mission in 1949. Some organizations of the principals of the vocational high schools filled the main role for this movement. CI & E did the role of the leader taking steps to legislate this law. The section for vocational education in the Ministry of Education did the central one drawing up the bill. This movement has advanced with the fine relation between these groups. The association of principals for industrial high schools in some organizations of the principals of the vocational high schools, I. Nelson in the CI & E, the chief Sugie in the section for vocational education in the Ministry of Education are indispensable role for legislating this law. 2) Because the movement of legislating were committed and approached by the various standpoints, the fundamental natures and contents of the bill tend to be conflict. The issues for the drawing up the bill are three: on the definition of the concept of "vocational education (SANGYO KYOIKU)," on the placing the homemaking in the vocational education and on the plan for the vocational education. 3) The Vocational Education Promotion Law were legislated with problems - on the educational legislation, on the vocational education, and the educational finance. These problems reflected on the structure of law and terms. Because the new system of finance were enforced, the resources for vocational education could not be secured enough. For the local finance of that time was in destitution. The Vocational Education Promotion Law makes the national expenditure limitedly possible. This means that this law made sure of the support for vocational education, and that it was placed the one of the postwar financial institutions for vocational education.