Research on responsibility to explain the educational policies to Parents

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  • 教育施策の実施過程における保護者への説明責任に関する研究
  • キョウイク シサク ノ ジッシ カテイ ニ オケル ホゴシャ エ ノ セツメイ セキニン ニ カンスル ケンキュウ

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In Japan, many educational reform are practiced to solve several problems. For examples, change of curriculum and school attendance days, introduction of school advisor system, school choice etc.. But we are afraid that if many parents do not understand the intention and contents, these policies will not work well. The aim of this paper is to clarify the degree of understanding of parents for such policies. For this, we practiced questionaire survey to parents. 3, 322 respondents of 12 elementary schools and 8 junior high schools were analyzed. Main findings are as follows : 1) The parents' opinions to school choice were divided three groups. Generally, parents of urban area agree school choice, parents of other area oppose. About 20% of parents do not reply. Some boards of education introduced school choice system, but they did not effort to grasps parents' need to this system. It intends that boards of education abandon to explain that policy to parents. 2) For integrated studies 5% or less reply "know well" and 45% is "know some." The degree of understanding to integrated studies is low. School and board of education do not execute responsibility to explain to parents. 3) For school advisor system, about 60% of parents do not know even that name. It means that school and board of education have not taken responsibility at all. The top-down reform is necessary at times, but agreement among stakeholders for policies are needed.

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