| Project/Area Number |
10610267
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
MOCHIDA Kengo KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, GRANDUATE SCHOOL OF HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT STUDIES, PROFESSOR, 人間環境学研究科, 教授 (70037050)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
望田 研吾 九州大学, 人間環境学研究科, 教授 (70037050)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Keywords | England / Secondary Education / Local Learning Network / Specilaist Secondary Schools / Community Dimension |
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| Research Abstract |
The author carried out the research to achieve the research aims as follows.
First, basing on mainly written documents and materials he analyzed the emphasis on a new function of specialist secondary schools advocated by the Labour government, The function is to help other primary, secondary schools and the community in improving quality of education by utilizing excellent educational resources of specialist schools. This function has become to be called 'community dimension' and the government has placed special importance on this aspect in screening the application for the specialist school status.
Second, the author carried out a questionnaire survey by mail to all the specialist secondary schools existed in 1999. The total number of schools is 362. The period of research was in September and October 1999. Head teachers and others of 152 schools have returned the questionnaire. Thus the return rate was 41.9 percent.
The findings of the survey can be summarized as follows: The specialist schools are trying to open up their resources positively in meeting the change of policy to stress the community dimension. But in the service to other schools in the local area the majority are providing it to primary schools while only about 60 percent are doing so to other secondary schools. This means that they are relatively slow to help secondary schools with which they have been competing in the education market. This is related to that in opinions of problems in developing community dimension relatively many heads chose 'the low rate of participation on the part of secondary schools.' Although there are several problems, the specialist secondary schools are making great efforts in building the local learning network to strengthen the community dimension. Thus it can be concluded that the building of the local learning network by the Labour government has been steadily developing
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