A clinical study of sustainable practices and their structure in high school educational reforms of Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22653102
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Educaion
Research Institution	Waseda University
Principal Investigator	KIKUCHI Eiji 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (10211872)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,050,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Keywords	持続可能性 / 高校教育改革 / エンパワメント / 臨床 / 主体変容 / 公共圏 / 内発性 / ホリスティック / コラボレーション / 学習する組織 / 若手教員の成長
Research Abstract	Concerning parctices and structures of sustainable reforms in high school education, the case study and the questionnaire survey give following facts; (1)"Abilities to be nurtured" are influenced by the stratum of high school strongly, so that it is necessary to set goals based on students' realities. (2) The crucial thing is that teachers create "learning organization" by piling up common success experiences through facing each others and transform themselves. (3) It is important to enhance the sustainability as the whole system by exploiting social capital (i.e. local community, administrative agencies), based on the fact that only the limited high schools perform their reforms that give suggestions to other schools.