Formation of Home room and Educational Practice : An Ethnography of Girls' High School

Abstract

Today, relation of teachers and students or students and students is difficult. It has been important that we make the new model of students' relation and relation of teachers and students, particularly how to connect the gap of a student subculture and school culture. This study regards school culture as two structures of the school culture as 'the logic of a school' and 'a result of the interaction with student subculture', and focus on interaction between teachers and students or students and students. By ethnography of girls' high school, it considered what role educational practice would have played for students and how educational practices is transmitted to the student, focusing formation HR class. In that, the idea of 'Legitimate peripheral participation' (Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger) is used and it focus on the process from which a first grader gains the identity of community of practice by interaction with a third grader through `Legitimate peripheral participation'. In the analysis result, in a first grader interaction with students who belong to a different group was not seen, and was passive participation in various activities of a school. On other a third grader was active about interaction with students who belong to a different group and activities of a school. After September the culture of a first grader shifted like a third grader. It became clear that a first grader was transmitting school culture from two routes, 'the logic of a school' and 'a result of the .interaction with student subculture'. It could be said that the view of the educational practice regarding the school as one community is important.