Analytical Study on Governmental Ministerial Cooperation in Education Policy Makings.

本研究历时两年，旨在厘清中央政府各部委在教育政策制定中的关系与合作。所得结果如下：除了主要负责国家教育政策制定的文部省，负责教育财政的财政部，负责地方学校教育事务的内务部，参与地方生活学习教育的劳动部和总理府，以及负责外国打工学生入学事务的外务省之外，在制定国家教育政策方面也发挥了非常重要的作用。这些部门通过正式或非正式的谈判方式相互合作制定教育政策。由于其政治性质，这些行政组织之间的非正式谈判受到了特别的关注。换句话说，我们发现国家教育政策是在中央政府各部的政治环境中规划和制定的。因此，本研究提出了从等级政治动态的角度研究国家教育政策制定的必要性。

This study that had been conducted for 2 years aimed to clarify the relations and cooperations among Central Governmental Ministries in Education Policy Makings. The results obtained are as follows.In addition to the Ministry of Education and Culture which is mainly responsible to the national education policy makings, Ministry of Finance which is responsible to the financing of education, Ministry of Home Affairs which is engaged in matters of local school education, Ministry of Labor and Prime Minister's Office that take part in local education of life learning, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is engaged in matters of admittance of working students (Syugakusei) from abroad, have also playd the very important role in making national education policy. These Ministries have cooperated each other through official or unofficial way of negotiations for making education policy. And special attention was put on unofficial negotiations among these administrative organizations because of its political character. In other words, it is found that national education policies have been planned and formulated in the very political settings of Central Governmental Ministries. Thus this study presents the necessity of making research on national education policy makings from the point of political dynamics of hierarchy.