2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Sociolegal Study for Construction of School Dispute Resolution Systems

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19730005
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Fundamental law
Research Institution	Iwate University
Principal Investigator	TSUCHIYA Akihiro Iwate University, 教育学部, 准教授 (50363304)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	法社会学 / 紛争処理論 / ADR / 学校教育紛争 / フィールドワーク
Research Abstract	Today, school disputes, especially schools-parents disputes are growing. This study aims to delineate the basic lines for a construction of school dispute resolution systems that can resolve disputes speedily and appropriately. Through researches of education ADR that are established by some municipalities, this study results the following some points: (a)the recent education reforms and social changes cause privatizations of public education that include reorganizations of relationships between school and parents, (b) the reorganizations mean a great increase of possibilities of communications and disputes between them, so,(c) the basis of school ADR needs functions that are possible to discuss for parties and create their mutual agreements.