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The Attitudes and Behaviors of Private School Parents under Yutori Reform : An Analysis on Private Financing and School Choice

大學教育研究

14

1-17

神戸大学大学教育推進機構

2006-03

2014-06-30

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A Japanese education reform initiative introduced in 2002, has led to dramatic reductions in required public school curriculum content and class time. There are widely shared concerns that this reform might enhance preference of affluent families to private schools that are less affected by the education reform or to supplementary school and will increase disparities in the school system. Against this background, this article aims at examining how private school parents behave in terms of private spending on education and school choice under the education reform and analyzing the impact of yutori education on their attitudes and behaviors. Drawn from the literature on the private cost of education, the comprehensive evaluation framework for school choice, and sociological literature on stratification, a quantitative data analysis, using OLS regression models, was adopted to analyze the data collected from 477 parents in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Overall, the article found a weak impact of yutori education on the private cost of education and the school choice of private school parents. Parents who perceive that freedom of choice is less under the education reform spend more to send their child to a private school than those who feel greater freedom. The extent of yutori education influence on their school choice attitudes differs among socio-economic groups and how they perceive the reform. Furthermore, it was found that local education policies interact with parental perceptions of yutori education to determine parental attitudes towards school choice. In addition, yutori education is likely to have a perceptual impact that parents who perceive it to be less efficient, less equitable, and less socially cohesive would spend more on supplementary education if their child were in public school.

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