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The principle of meritocracy in education and its current status in the age of neoliberalism: a theoretical and empirical study

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17530616
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Sociology of education
Research InstitutionUniversity of the Ryukyus

Principal Investigator

HASEGAWA Yutaka  University of the Ryukyus, Faculty of education, Professor (30253933)

Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2007
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,270,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Keywordsmeritocracy / individual / competition / Foucault
Research Abstract

The task of this study is (I) to consider anew what is "meritocracy" in the education fundamentally in the light of social theory, and (II) to grasp how the principle of the meritocracy appears in the current status of education according to the method of the social research.
In the report of this study, the result of the research by questionnaires, which is on the task (I) concerned with current status of meritocracy in education, is showed. The research was conducted from June to September in 2007 for the purpose of clarifying empirically how the consciousness and the action of children and the youth was regulated by the meritocracy within education as well as outside of it, targeted at the second grade full-time senior high school students (2,475 with valid responses) of 34 schools, which were extracted at random from the whole country, and were consent of cooperating to the research
The findings provided from the research are wide-ranging; for example, i) a consciousness with "affirmation of meritocracy" is found more strongly among students belonging to classes higher in "rank", ii) but at the same time, such a consciousness is found generally among research samples of high school students regardless of the difference of "rank" of their classes, iii) on the other side, the consciousness with "affirmation of the principle of equality" is seen widely among high school students none less than that consciousness with "affirmation of meritocracy", iv) in addition, between these two consciousnesses is there not a positive or negative correlation but a decorrelation.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2007 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • 2005 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(6 results)

All 2007 2006

All Journal Article (3 results) Presentation (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] 教育における能力主義についての原理的考察に向けて-黒崎勲の能力主義論の検討を通じてその論点設定を行う-2006

    • Author(s)
      長谷川裕
    • Journal Title

      琉球大学教育学部紀要 第68集

      Pages: 79-96

    • NAID

      120001371921

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Toward the fundamental consideration on meritocracy in education^ setting of points of issue by way of the examination of Isao Kurosaki's argument on meritocracy2006

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Hasegawa
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of Faculty of Education, University of the Ryukyu No. 68

      Pages: 79-96

    • NAID

      120001371921

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 教育における能力主義についての原理的考察に向けて-黒崎勲の能力主義論の検討を通じてその論点設定を行う-2006

    • Author(s)
      長谷川 裕
    • Journal Title

      硫球大学教育学部紀要 第68集(印刷中)

    • NAID

      120001371921

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 学校における管理と「不安とセキュリティ」問題-「規律社会」的な管理から「管理社会」的なそれへ? -2007

    • Author(s)
      長谷川裕
    • Organizer
      唯物論研究協会第30回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      立命館大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-10-20
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] The management in schools and the problem of'uneasy and security': from the type of management of'disciplinary society' to that of 'society of control'?2007

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Hasegawa
    • Organizer
      The thirtieth annual conference of Japanese Society for the Study of Materialism
    • Place of Presentation
      Ritsumeikan University
    • Year and Date
      2007-10-20
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 「学校における管理と「不安とセキュリティ」問題-「規律社会」的な管理から「管理社会」的なそれへ?-」2007

    • Author(s)
      長谷川 裕
    • Organizer
      唯物論研究協会第30回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      立命館大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-10-20
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report

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