A Study on Teachers' "Life Guidance" of the middle school in Contemporary RuralRural China

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K22221
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: :Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Nihon University
• Principal Investigator: LIU Lifeng 日本大学, 文理学部, 助手 (20875801)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-09-11 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 生活指導 / 中国農村部 / 学校統廃合 / 寄宿生活 / 農村部の親

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to focus on the aspect of "Life Guidance" in middle school education in Rural China, and to clarify its reality and mechanism from both school (teachers) and home (parents) perspectives. The original plan was to examine the above questions through a survey at the school site, but the survey could not be conducted since the research period coincided with the outbreak of the covid-19 . Online interviews were conducted with parents in rural areas, from which the following findings emerged. That is, despite the high expectations and need of "life guidance" as school life was prolonged due to the rural school consolidation policy, parents limited the scope of school responsibility to "learning guidance" and viewed the home (parents) as ultimately responsible for their children's education.

Free Research Field

教育社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

中国の学校教育は「進学至上主義」と特徴づけられるように、「学習指導」に偏重していることがこれまで指摘されてきた。しかし、農村部の学校統廃合政策が進み、子どもたちの学校生活が長期化するなか、「生活指導」の必要性が高まってきたと言える。こうした状況を踏まえて、学校教育における「生活指導」の実態やそのメカニズムを明らかにすることは、現在の教育課題や今後の教育政策を考察するうえで重要であるとともに、学校教育の役割および意義を再考するうえでも重要な意味を持つ。