The Education Policymaking process: DX from the Cabinet to the Classroom

• Project/Area Number: 25K16917
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 09010:Education-related
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Bamkin Sam 東京大学, グローバル教育センター, 講師 (80976093)
• Project Period (FY): 2025-04-01 – 2028-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2025)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000); Fiscal Year 2027: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2026: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
• Keywords: 教育DX / 教育政策 / 教育行政 / デジタル庁 / policy enactment

Outline of Research at the Start

This research examines how national education policies are written in government and how they are actually implemented in local schools and classrooms in Japan, using the case of digital transformation (DX). It will provide a comprehensive description of DX policy at each level of the education system - the details of digital policy, how the policy was made, how it works in schools and what that reveals about the processes of policy making and its enactment. The project sheds light on the gap between policy and practice through shifts in the structure of government.