Conflicts between neo-liberal educational reform and school culture

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381128
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Takada Kazuhiro 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 准教授 (80273564)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MAEBA Yusaku 大阪大学, 大学院人間科学研究科, 講師 (00632738) ; HAYASHIZAKI Kazuhiko 福岡教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (10410531) ; SUWA Koichi 大阪大学, 大学院人間科学研究科, 招へい研究員 (50440962) ; NAKAMURA Akihito 大阪大学, 大学院人間科学研究科, 助教 (30756028)
• Research Collaborator: KASHIWAGI Tomoko 大阪国際大学, 短期大学部, 講師 (90571894)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 新自由主義 / 教育改革 / 教育文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We carried out field work in some schools and school districts and interviews to teachers, parents and local residents in Osaka city for three years.
Short-term impacts of the educational reform are following. The performance-based school management and the administrative control over teachers reduced autonomy of educational practices. The school choice system promoted prejudices to the specific schools and school districts. We are worrying about outflowing of talented teachers, declining of voluntary training of teachers, privatization of the educational consciousness of parents, and the deterioration of education conditions of schools.

Free Research Field

教育社会学