Clinical sociological study of education for the right to educationof children who do not attend school

该研究项目主张创造一个新的类别，称为“不上学的儿童”，以涵盖各种类型的从不上学或长期缺课的儿童。在此基础上，我们试图改变对教育问题的认识，并对日本的法律的和行政制度进行批判。我们主要分析了旷课、高中辍学及其社会经济背景。我们亦曾前往英国曼彻斯特，了解加强儿童福利功能的“扩展学校”的管理，最后指出这问题与本港公共教育及其他社会制度运作不良有关，并警告不上学可能是社会排斥累积过程的第一个关键阶段

This research project advocates inventing new category called “children not attending school” in order to capture various types of children who never go to school or absent from school for a long time. Based on this category we try to change understandings of the educational problems as well as to criticize legal and administrative systems of Japan. We mainly analyzed absenteeism, high school dropout and their socio-economical backgrounds. We also visited Manchester, UK to learn the management of the “extended school” which enhanced child welfare functions.We finally pointed out this issue should be linked to the problems of malfunctioning of public education as well as other social systems in our society and warned not attending school could be the first critical phase of accumulative process of social exclusion