Research on the Reality Structure of Mass Media Regarding Public Education

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K02307
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09020:Sociology of education-related
• Research Institution: Suzuka Junior College
• Principal Investigator: inoue Takeo 鈴鹿大学短期大学部, 生活コミュニケーション学科 こども学専攻, 助教 (90807497)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 公教育 / マスメディア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have identified two structural features of the current mass media that prevent educational policy from becoming an agenda item. One is that it is difficult to tell a story about the problems of education policy, and it is difficult to put it on the agenda. The reason why incidents and accidents involving children are preferred in educational reporting on television is not because of the attitude of the reporters, but because their narrative nature matches the temporal nature of the reporting. Another problem is that topics that are easy to turn into stories that are covered in educational television coverage tend to become obsolete. As a result, it prevents the formation of a more structured educational public opinion with a broader perspective, and it reduces educational issues to the level of problems that are not reported first when major social problems emerge.

Free Research Field

教育社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

現在もなお、テレビが教育言説の編制に影響力をもつ蓋然性とともに、市民社会を作り出す公教育のあり方が歪められている課題が現存することを示した。また、民主主義の根幹を揺るがしている近年の教育政策の問題性が社会的な議題として浮上しづらくなっている要因の1つとして、現在のマスメディアの構造があることを示した。