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"The Lack of Progress in Japanese Education Policy for Foreign Children: A Study of Causes in Area X"

NOSE Keisuke

last update: 20151225


The Lack of Progress in Japanese Education Policy for Foreign Children: A Study of Causes in Area X

NOSE Keisuke
Abstract:
Due to globalization, there are foreigners and related educational problems in every local area in Japan. However, the Japanese government has devised neither a systematic policy for foreign residents nor provided adequate education for foreign children. The Japanese government has followed a policy of monoculturalism since World War II. As a result, some foreign children do not go to school and many foreign children, especially Brazilians, are not eager to study because of family circumstances resulting from immigration policy and the labor market.

Even if the national government lacks policies, local education administrations need to formulate some as independent administrations, but most local education administrations, with some exceptions, have done nothing, so far.

To discover the reasons for this lack of local support for foreign students, I interviewed administration persons concerned at X area in central Honshu.

In general, studies of educational administration report that local education administrations are controlled by the national Ministry of Education and cannot promote their own policies. This is true, but there is another factor according to my research. Local education administrations are surrounded by a majority (Japanese parents and school teachers) that drowns out the voices of the minority (foreigners) about education theory and policy.


Keywords: education for foreign children, policy for foreigners, local administration of education, marginalization
REV: 20151225
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