<Article>Current Status and Issues of Parent's Social Capital in the Policy of Cooperation with Local Community and Parents: From the practice of School-Community Partnerships at Two Elementary schools in Tokyo and Oita

Today, the importance of social capital in education is increasing from various aspects such as nuclearization of families and widening educational disparities. Meanwhile, previous researches focusing on the relationship between social capital and children's academic outcome and the cooperation between the community and schools are being actively conducted. On the other hand, only a few researches on social capital of parents have progressed even though the report of the Central Council for Education points out its importance. In this study, I conducted an interview survey of two elementary schools with different regional characteristics. Then, by analyzing with the M-GTA method, we clarified the current state of social capital held by parents and the issues in the process of fostering them. Specifically, (1)there are barriers in process of building social capital and issues related to adaptation after building social capital depending on the situation of parents, and (2)there is a possibility of a gap between parents who have fostered social capital and those who have not, and (3)there is a unique perspective to fathers and the difference of current status of parent's social capital due to regional characteristics. This is a practical material that can be used as a reference for schools to look back on their social capital, and help each school discover what kind of barriers there are, and at what stage in fostering social capital in the context of their own school. It can be said that such suggestions were obtained