進学塾とその機能

Abstract

According to the report on “Juku” published by the Ministry of Education in March, 1977, the proportion of the pupils who are attending the “Juku”, is 20.2%In this aiticle, I want to analyze the function of “Juku” by the method of the depth interview approach.I present four case reports in this article. The first is the case of the elementary school in the suburbs of Tokyo. One boy in the fifth grade in this school goes to Juku from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., twice a week. On Sundays, he goes to Tokyo to take achievement tests. But he is not the rare case. Sixty-four percent of his classmates is attending Juku twice or thrice a week.The second case is the report of the rural community. There is no Juku in the village. But children do the home work 1.5 hour every day. So, if Juku is established, perhaps they may also go to Juku.On the 16th of July, 1976, we visited one elementary school in Osaka and had an interview with the children. Fifty-eight per cent of the children in the sixth grade attend Juku. But, in the case of another school in Kyoto, only 17% of the children go to Juku.These four cases prove that the degree of children enrolled in Juku is different in each case, and that it is determined by the three factors; teacher's attitude, parental expectation on their children and the scholastic achievement of each child.