A STUDY OF THE POLICY OF BUILDING OF LOCAL LEARNING

笔者开展这项研究主要是为了达到以下研究目的：首先，以书面文件和资料为主，分析了工党政府倡导的专科中学的新功能，其功能是利用专科学校的优秀教育资源，帮助其他中小学和社区提高教育质量。这一功能已被称为“社区维度”，政府在筛选专科学校地位的申请时特别重视这方面的工作。第二，笔者对1999年存在的所有专科中学进行了邮寄问卷调查。学校总数为362所。研究时间为1999年9月和10月。152所学校的校长和其他人已经寄回了问卷。调查结果总结如下：各专科学校正积极开拓资源，以配合政策的转变，强调社区为本。但在为当地其他学校提供服务方面，大多数是向小学提供服务，而只有大约60%的学校是向其他中学提供服务。这意味着，它们在帮助与它们在教育市场上竞争的中学方面相对缓慢。这与在发展社区维度的问题上，有较多的校长选择“中学参与率低”有关。尽管存在几个问题，但专门中学正在努力建立本地学习网络，以加强社区层面。由此可见，工党政府在当地建立的学习网络一直在稳步发展

The author carried out the research to achieve the research aims as follows.First, basing on mainly written documents and materials he analyzed the emphasis on a new function of specialist secondary schools advocated by the Labour government, The function is to help other primary, secondary schools and the community in improving quality of education by utilizing excellent educational resources of specialist schools. This function has become to be called 'community dimension' and the government has placed special importance on this aspect in screening the application for the specialist school status.Second, the author carried out a questionnaire survey by mail to all the specialist secondary schools existed in 1999. The total number of schools is 362. The period of research was in September and October 1999. Head teachers and others of 152 schools have returned the questionnaire. Thus the return rate was 41.9 percent.The findings of the survey can be summarized as follows: The specialist schools are trying to open up their resources positively in meeting the change of policy to stress the community dimension. But in the service to other schools in the local area the majority are providing it to primary schools while only about 60 percent are doing so to other secondary schools. This means that they are relatively slow to help secondary schools with which they have been competing in the education market. This is related to that in opinions of problems in developing community dimension relatively many heads chose 'the low rate of participation on the part of secondary schools.' Although there are several problems, the specialist secondary schools are making great efforts in building the local learning network to strengthen the community dimension. Thus it can be concluded that the building of the local learning network by the Labour government has been steadily developing