The Function of Schools in Today : Focus on Critique to "Modern Education"

Today there are many troubles at school such as being bullied, school-non-attendance, class-room-collapse and juvenile delinquency. This paper retraced the establishment of school education, popular education and modern public education system, and examined the relationship between school and social changes. It was found that there was a great difference in values between modern industrial and recent informational societies. This leads a conclusion that we should reconsider what school should be. Next, criticizing from the standpoint of Aries, Illich and Foucault, we presented following three proposals to reconsider the role of modern school education : (1) school as a cooperative society, (2) interactive educational relationship among generations and (3) character formation based on clinical knowledge.12KJ00004249195論文Articledepartmental bulletin pape