Study on the "Professionality" of School Superintendent comparing Japan and the U.S.A.

• Project/Area Number: 11610287
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educaion
• Research Institution: TOYO University
• Principal Investigator: FUJIMOTO Norihiro Faculty of Literature, TOYO University, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (50297719)
• Project Period (FY): 1999 – 2001
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000); Fiscal Year 2001: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000); Fiscal Year 2000: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 1999: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
• Keywords: board of education / school superintendent / city manager / municipal reform / popular control / representativeness / 地方教育行政

Research Abstract

Concluding three-year study, I mainly tried to fill up the studies made during past two years. Concretely speaking, (1) with analyses into the materials I had gathered, I tried to rewrite some papers which have been published, and (2) analyze the results from the questionaire study.
As for (1), I couldn't make a new paper, but I rewrite some of my papers and conclude them in the final report.
As for (2), answers to my questionaire were poor in both number and quality. So I give up the deep analysis and will conduct further study on this point.
Through the three-year study, I clarified the remarkable points of each of three stages of development of superintendents of schools ; (1) superintendent as expert, (2) superintendent as business-manager, (3) superintendent as political statesman. This is the one of my main objects I set at the beginning of this study.
But I couldn't make the precise study on the school board system and the roles and characteristics of superintendent of schools comparing Japanand the U.S.A.. So, this is my next object.

Research Products

• [Publications] 藤本典裕: "戦後改革期の北方教育行政制度構想"東洋大学文学部紀要(教育学科編). 第54集. 197-224 (2001)