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https://doi.org/10.14943/b.edu.130.99

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/68858

An Approach to Securing Educational Opportunities in Okinawa Prefecture : Establishment of Okinawa Prefectural Support Center for Children and Students of Remote Islands

日本語

securing educational opportunities

2018-03-30

北海道大学大学院教育学研究院

北海道大学大学院教育学研究院紀要

130

99-115

With the overconcentration of economic activities and the growing importance of costcompetitiveness in the international market due to increasing globalization, remote areasliable to become disadvantageous economically tend to decline and suffer from disparity andimbalance of educational opportunities. This study aims to reveal the realties and problemsof education in peripheral areas with reference to Okinawa Prefecture, which is developingpolicies to eliminate the disparity and imbalance of educational opportunities in peripheralareas. Okinawa Prefecture, which is weak in industrial power and a financial base comprisingmany remote islands where no high schools exist, worked on a project to establish OkinawaPrefectural Support Center for Children and Students on Remote Islands. With a focus onthis project, we analyzed geographical and economic factors that underlay the developmentof the policy, discussions that culminated in the establishment, and the boarding students’current situations and needs. Analysis of the results clarified that this center is expectedto prevent the division of family and population outflow from remote islands in addition topromoting measures to mitigate depopulation, as well as reducing the financial burden thatstudents from remote islands face when they continue to higher education.

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