Obligation of elemental education to foreign children and the social conditions about the stabilization of children's status of residence

本研究的主要目的是弄清在当代日本外国儿童入学的保障条件。他们的小学入学率估计不到90%。人们指出了几个原因来解释他们不上学的原因，但一个基本的原因似乎是外国人免受义务教育。那么，如何对在日本生活的外国人实施这种义务教育呢？我们对这次教育改革的条件进行了研究。我们发现，外国人口定居的趋势越来越突出，使得不可能离开未来的公民，无论他们的国籍，义务教育。但是，对于外国人家长来说，学校的选择是一个重要的问题，为了扩大选择的范围，应该允许外国人学校和民族学校作为义务教育学校。在这种情况下，根据我们的问卷调查，大约有三分之二的日本教师和其他教育工作者赞成对外国人儿童实施义务小学教育。

The principal aim of our study is to clarify the conditions for the securing of schooling of foreign children in contemporary Japan. Their rate of school enrollment in primary education is estimated less than 90%. Several reasons are pointed out to explain their school nonattendance, but a basic one is seemed to be the exemption of foreigners from the compulsory education. Then, how to apply this compulsory education to foreigners living in Japan?We made researches on the conditions of this educational reform. And we found that the tendency of settlement of foreign population more and more accentuated makes impossible to leave the future citizens, regardless of their nationality, out of the compulsory education. However, the school choice is important for the foreign parents and, in order to widen the range of choice, the foreign schools and ethnic schools should be admitted as compulsory education school On these conditions, according to our questionnaire survey, about two thrd of Japanese teachers and other educational actors approved to apply the obligatory elementary education to foreign children.