The Empirical Study on the Populalizability of Some Models for the High School Education Reforms

本研究的目的是描述各种高中教育改革的现实，并考察其作为改革模式的可通俗性。我们特别关注了“新型高中”的成功与失败，例如：“综合”高中和学分制高中。研究结果如下：1。高中教育改革的很大一部分是建立“一些大学入学课程”。如果没有足够的财政支持来获得更好的教育资源，“效率”的价值可能会被强调。学术性的“综合性”高中能得到初中毕业生的极大欢迎。例如，埼玉县稻田园综合高中可以为他们的学生提供比普通同类高中更积极和积极的学校生活。但大多数的成功是由一些特殊的治疗带来的。这是高中教育改革的“悖论”。1988年实行制度化的学分制高中，其社会历史背景非常多样化。这些学校的作用是“拯救”一些辍学者。这可以通过较小的师生比例和礼貌的指导来实现。我们可以预期，在消费社会中，中等教育和高等教育的衔接将发生巨大的变化，青年文化将发生转变。我们必须从这些“宏观趋势”出发，把握高中教育改革的未来。

The purpose of this study is to describe the realities of various kinds of high school education reforms and examine their popularizability as reform models. Especially we focused on the success and failure of "the new types of high school", ex. "comprehensive" high schools and credit-system high schools. Some findings are indicated as follows :1. The great part of the high school education reforms resulted in establishing "some courses fr college-attendance". If there is not enough financial support for better educational resurces, the value of "efficiency" likely to be emphasized.2. Academic "comprehensive" high schols can get a great populality of junior high schol graduates. For instance, Saitama Prefectural Inagakuen Comprehensive High Schol can provide their students with more active and psitive school life than usual comparable high schols. But most of the success is brought by some special treatments. This is "paradx" of high schl education regorms.3. Credit-system high schols, which was institutionalized in 1988, are very diverstified in their socio-historical backgrunds. These schools function as the institution for "saving" some dropouts. This might be accomplished by the small teacher/pupil ratio and polite instruction.4. We can expect that the articulation between secondary and tertiary education will make a great change and youth culture will be transformed in consumer society. We have to grasp the future of high schol education reforms with taking account of these "macro-trends".