What is the Ikizurasa of Children ? : The Nesting Angst of School Non-Attendance in the Risk Society

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the angst of children, especially school non-attendance ones. Recently, the problem of school non-attendance is one of most notorious social phenomenon in Japan. Many people think that school non-attendance is just a problem of truants. Japanese Government has researched this phenomenon. However many children concerned with it are groaning under school non-attendance. So I think about the problem from a different perspective, that is Ikizurasa, Firstly, it this paper focuses on how the concept of Ikizurasa is used and I define the Ikizurasa as the nesting angst. Secondly, it will consider the relationships between school non-attendance and risk society that is quoted from the theory of German sociologist Ulrich Beck. According to Beck, school non-attendance is one of the risk of modernity. This article suggests we must realize that risk of modernity has a hidden risk. The most important role of modern school system is to discipline and homogenize children. According to Ivan Illich, a characteristic of modern society is schooled situation. There all the values are evaluated in term of school system. Children of school non-attendance are worried that is as deviants named Futoko, because the education of school is most important learning in schooled society. Nobody can exit from the schooled society. The analysis of this paper points out the existence of Ikizurasa of school non-attendance children and try to research it. We can understand the surface of school non-attendance, but can’t grasp the true nature of Ikizurasa. Children of school non-attendance are faced with a schooled society and they have nesting angst