Overview and Issues of Educational Practices in an Empowerment School Where the Logic of Education, Employment, and Welfare Intersects

Abstract

In this study, as an educational practice at an empowerment school, we focused on the cooperation between the school and external support organizations in establishing a support project at Osaka Prefectural Nishinari High School, to describe the current situation, and raise the following five issues :

⑴the necessity of coordinating information shared between schools and external institutions, ⑵establishment of feedback routes for schools to incorporate information reported to them from external institutions into the curriculum, ⑶actively and mutually disclose and share information on the hired high school graduates’ family backgrounds, between school, external organizations, and companies, from the perspective of building a gentle career ladder and the adaptation and development of vocational ability with local companies, ⑷the need to clarify authority and responsibility through defining professionalism between schools and external organizations, and ⑸the need to re-examine the significance of the Employment Security Law from the perspective of employment support through schools.