A STUDY ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATING SCHOOLS IN REMOTE AREAS IN THE 1950s: THE SCOPE OF THE ACT FOR THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN REMOTE AREAS

• TOGASHI Chihiro

  Wako University

• MIYOTA Sakurako

  Matsumoto University

• YONEZU Naoki

  Nanzan University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 1950年代におけるへき地学校指定基準の成立に関する研究
• ─へき地教育振興法におけるへき地性─

Abstract

This study aims to elucidate the legal process to establish an objective measure of children's actual circumstances and the difficulties faced by communities in remote areas that would capture the characteristics of remote areas, and to elucidate its limitation as a standard for the provision of educational conditions in the 1950s. Therefore, this study examined and summarized the process through which the Enforcement Regulations of the Act for the Promotion of Education in Remote Areas, which are the criteria for designating schools in remote areas, were established. In addition, we set out to clarify the meaning of remoteness in the Act for the Promotion of Education in Remote Areas, which was established in the 1950s. The following points were established through this study. The promotion of education in remote areas in the 1950s aimed to provide educational conditions, including the provision of teaching tools, materials, and facilities to remote areas that are characterized by transportation difficulties due to natural conditions, poverty, and cultural delay. Based on this idea, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology carried out a detailed survey in which the actual circumstances of children and cultural characteristics of remote areas were also considered. The survey revealed that the criteria for designating schools in remote areas did not sufficiently reflect these aspects. In other words, although the criteria for designating schools in remote areas have been used for the provision of a remote area allowance and have contributed, to some extent, to securing teachers in remote areas, they were not constructed as an objective measure based on the actual circumstances of children and the cultural context in remote areas; and there is currently a demand for such objective measures. The provision of educational conditions from the perspective of social inclusion is a common modern issue, and needs to be re-examined.

Journal

• Bulletin of the Japan Educational Administration Society

  Bulletin of the Japan Educational Administration Society 46 (0), 107-123, 2020

  The Japan Educational Administration Society

Keywords

• Provision of Educational Conditions
• Education in Remote Areas
• Post-war Education Reform

Details

• CRID: 1390008212404884480
• NII Article ID: 130008103433
• DOI: 10.24491/jeas.46.0_107
• ISSN: 24331899
• ISSN: 09198393
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
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