Research Study on School Administration Function of Branch Office of Prefectual Board of Education

在这项研究中，我做了两种调查研究，一是1993年教育委员会设分厅的县与其他县的比较个案研究，二是1994年对44个地州的288个分局进行的问卷调查。调查结果表明：(1)大多数县的分局是在战前地方行政体制的基础上设立的，因此其范围是当地人民理解的自然现象。(2)县有分局的教育管理工作比没有分局的县教育管理更紧密、更有效。由于他们对每一所学校的管理方式都是限制其自主权，所以应该更加专业化。(3)分支部和市教育局之间的学校管理职能的关系取决于市的规模。由于分会的范围通常不仅与教师调动、教材分发、督导活动等领域重叠，而且与一些教师研究会和学校管理人员协会的组织单位重叠。因此，这些活动可以互相促进。(5)地市级教育局、市教育局和县教育局的督导人员的实际活动和人才不同，根据不同的年龄和职业进行分配。(6)从人事管理和督导管理两方面看，分局面积是学校管理的合理有效的单位。因此，如何围绕分支部的职能重组地方教务单位区，是一个亟待探讨的问题。

In this project, I have done two kinds of survery study ; the first was on the comparative case study between prefecures with branch offices in board of education and others in 1993 and the second was on the questionnaire survey to all 288 branch offices in 44 prefectures in 1994.From these surveys, I have gained the following findings :(1) Most offices were set up on the basis of prewar local administration system, so the area of them is natural for local people's understanding.(2) Prefecural educational administration with branch offices is done tighter and more effectively than others without branch offices. As their administrative way to each school is to limit its autonomy, it should be more professionally.(3) The relation of the school administration function between the branch offices and municipal board of education depends on the municipal size. The branch offices like to give more effect to the small size municipals.(4) As the area of branch office ordinaly overlaps not only with the areas of teacher transfer, distribution of textbooks, and supervisors' activities but also the organizational units of some research and study associations of teachers and school administrators associations. Therefore these activeties can make adding effects in one another.(5) As the actual activities and talents of supervisors in the prefectual head office of board of education, its branch offices and municipal board of education are defferent in one another, their assigment is done according to the different ages and career.(6) I could understand that the area of branch offices is rational and effective unit for school administration both in personnel and supervisory administration. So it should be inquired how to reorganize the local educational administration unit area focused on the function of branch office.