A preliminary study of factors determining interest in recurrent education for women

Abstract

Promotion of recurrent education is an essential issue for the sustainable development of society. Most of the previous studies have concerned the perspective of the organizations that implement recurrent education. Fewer studies have been conducted from the perspective of students, who should be the key beneficiaries. Here, we focused on women with elementary and junior high school children as the subjects of recurrent education and surveyed to clarify their interest in recurrent education and its factors. As a result, we found that most of them were interested in recurrent education, but they were unwilling to spend money on it. The results also found that people with high educational background, higher education norms, and a high estimate of the effectiveness of recurrent education showed a high interest in recurrent education.