主体的・組織的な学習者を育てる公的社会教育の役割

—板橋区の学習支援NPOの設立・発展を通して—

抄録

Recently, social education budgets have been reduced under the administrative and financial reforms of local governments. Further, social education is to be a tool for the achievement of administrative goals and it is because of these restrictions that the independent activities of the citizens are being obstructed.

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of public social education on the development of residential self-government through collaboration between social education facilities and an Non-Profit Organizaiton (which is called “the learning promotion center”) in the Itabashi City.

Through the collaboration, the learning promotion center has acquired the learning methods for developing residential self-government. The center had only this mission before the collaboration. On the other hand, social education facilities could provide the environment and opportunity where the youth and adult learners have been independently active. Also, the facilities could change the management of the facilities to democratic management through the participation of the residents and the NPO.

In conclusion, the role of public social education on the development of residential self-government is to initiate the residents into the methods to be able to stick to residential self-government at their own request. If this is possible, we may be able to find the methods to overcome a crisis of residential self-government in the future.