1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Life-long Learning and Openness of Educational Institution

Research Project

Project/Area Number	06610260
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educaion
Research Institution	Kobe Shinwa Women's University
Principal Investigator	MIYAZAKI Kazuo Kobe Sinwa Women's University Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20229826)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	HARA Kiyoharu Bukkyo University Lecturer, 教育学部, 専任講師 (20278469)
Project Period (FY)	1994 – 1996
Keywords	life-long learning / learning needs of the aged people / openness of educational institution / life-long learning in a sparsely-populated area
Research Abstract	The main purpose of this study is to make it clear that an opportunity of life-long learning is spread over in the recent society. Thus about the reserch, the 1st year in 1994, the target was the aged people in Kobe arban area (1,426 sample). And the 2nd year in 1995, that was the aged people in a sparsely-populated area (1,337 sample). Through the research, the main findings are as follows. (1) Recognition and Needs for life-long learning is fairly high, that is the same tendency in both area (arban and sparsely-populated area). (2) Learning needs for the aged people is headding for finding one's life worth living, and in addition to that, such needs mainly comes from "self-demands". (3) Openness of educational institution in a sparsely-populated area is fairly less conditions than that of in the arban area. (Mainly, the luck of educational information, short of number of educational institution, and financial difficulties.) These factors leads the people an obstruction for learning. (4) In a sparsely-populated area, specially, life-long learning is the same meaning for a community net-work. In the other words, in such area, the agent to take part in a learning opportunity is very connected to the human-relations.