It needs to be clarified how children grow up with the people around them and their surroundings. For this process, the cooperation among school, families and the community is necessary. Recently, the combination and reorganization of schools increases due to the declining of the birthrate. Wider school zone becomes because of the combination and reorganization, more difficult the cooperation between a school and its community becomes.
On the other hand, a certain way of integration combination and reorganization of schools catches attentions. It is to establish unified elementary through junior high schools. This type of school is also considered as one of the solutions to work on some academic issues. Inside of the stricken area by the Great East Japan Earthquake, for example, unified elementary through junior high school has established, being aimed at the revival of the education in that area. This method is expected to strengthen the social ties in the community.
However, only few attempts have so far been made at the research on the cooperation between unified elementary through junior high school and its community, because this type of school is comparatively new in Japan. So, the purpose of this paper is to acquire the basic knowledge of the cooperation between unified elementary through junior high school and its community.
For Kyoto Ohara Gakuin that was consolidated to unified elementary through junior high school for the purpose of staying the school in the area, this paper clarify the outlines of the activities of the students inside and outside the classes in cooperation with local residents, the effect of the activities on local residents and teachers and requirements to promote cooperation.
First, we carried out an interview survey to local residents in order to grasp the outlines of the activities, the contents of cooperation and awareness of the people in the activities. Secondly, we carried out a questionnaire survey and an interview survey to class teachers and the principal so as to grasp the conditions of planning and operation of the activities by class teachers and the awareness of the class teachers about the activities.
The number of activities with the community has increased after introduction of unified elementary through junior high school education. Local residents` children or grandchildren who go to Kyoto Ohara Gakuin and other local residents work together in the activities, because the teachers positively communicate with local residents in the community`s events in order to take care of them and strengthen the relationships among them.
The effects on local residents through the cooperation to the activities are the following points; to utilize a place for activities as one part of the community, an opportunity to hang out is increased and to be able to be vigorous.
The effect on teachers is to come to have a better communication with local residents and start to have a feeling that this school is necessary for the community.
The cooperation between a unified elementary through junior high school and its community gives the desirable effect to the local residents who cooperate as well as operate the activities; the awareness of themselves and better life.
All in all, to promote the cooperation between unified elementary and junior high school and local residents, it is important to value the place to interact with local residents in order to make relationships with residents other than guardians and to make connections within a school zone. As a result, it seems reasonable to say that the consciousness that things of school are also things of the community has been raised, and, as a consequence, the cooperation among them has been improved.
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