Establishment of the Local Educational Administration in Modern Japan and the Confederative Councils of Prefectures on Educational Administration

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530967
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educaion
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: YUKAWA Katsumi 上智大学, 総合人間科学部, 教授 (30156814)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 地方教育行政 / 府県聯合学事会 / 大学区教育会議 / 学制改革案

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to clarify the role of educational meetings of the wide area beyond the range of the prefectures on establishment and development of the local educational administration in modern Japan. In this study, the author clarifies what the Confederative Councils of Prefectures on Educational Administration and the Local Division Councils on Educational Administration were actually managed thorough analyzing the historical documents about these councils.
The results are as follow: 1) In these councils, prefectures cooperated each other and established an education policy by each other's agreements. 2) These councils also functioned as the middle system which showed local demands and opinions in a lump to the Ministry of Education, and had the power to propel educational system reform.

Free Research Field

教育学