教育地理学的見地から推進した高校新設運動

大阪府における一事例

抄録

For students proceeding to municipality funded High Schools, the nation has adopted a system whereby the country is divided into education districts. This measure has been taken to ensure equal opportunity to all aspiring students. The division into education districts was adopted by Osaka Prefecture in 1948 and after being the subject of a debate on possible revisions in 1953 and in 1963, has been in force to the present day. As an auxiliary measure to ensure a balance between the respective subdivided education districts, there is the parallel application of an adjustable school system. As to the system in 1973, the newspapers pointed out the dispelling of excessive concentration of would be entrants to specific schools and effective reduction of disqualification of specific schools, as laudable results and ended up reporting very favorably concerning the effectiveness of the revisions achieved. However this is an evaluation from the administrative side of the school system and from the viewpoints of the school system and from the viewpoints of the schools themselves and the citizens living in the respective districts, it has been clarified that there are a number of inherent contradictions as yet to be reconciled.
This paper is a report on movement which targeted these contradictions and was initiated to provide equal opportunity to all examination applicants through establishing of new schools.