A Sociological Study of Meritocracy in the Teaching Profession

我从三个相互影响的角度进行研究。首先，以教师对改革的抗争为重点，分析了教师职业的社会特征。其次，从老师那里了解到东北地震和福岛核灾难对教学的影响，我发现课程是他们教学中的一个关键问题。第三，在对《21世纪科学：英国GCSE科学教科书》作者进行文本分析和访谈的基础上，对课程进行社会学探索。我探讨了第一版中的预防原则和ALARA从第二版中删除的原因。很多举报人都提出了“考试委员会”等解释，但由于这些复杂的概念不属于考试范围，所以出版社将其删除。然而，即使它们不是因为政府的压力而被删除，而是出于实际原因，其背景和后果也将是政治性的。

I conducted research from three points of reciprocally-affected perspectives. Firstly, I analyzed the social characteristics of the teaching profession by focusing on teachers'struggles against the recent reform. Secondly, hearing from teachers how the teaching was affected by Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster, I found the curriculum was a crucial issue in their teaching. Thirdly, I made a sociological exploration on curriculum based on textual analysis and interview with authors of Twenty First Century Science: A GCSE Science Textbook in England. I explored the reason why the precautionary principle and ALARA in the first edition were deleted from the second edition. Many informants made an explanation such as the exam board and the publisher deleted them because these complex concepts were not examinable. However, even if they were deleted not because of pressures from the government, but for practical reasons, the background and the consequence would be political.