東南アジア諸国比較教育行政機構論

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to make a comparative analysis of educational administrative organizations in eight Southeast Asian countries. At present, the developing countries in Southeast Asia are making a maximum effort to establish and develop education, and this fact naturally invites strong national concern for educational affairs. Each country has already established a refined structure of educational administration, planning to put forward strong programs of education. An unbalance is observed, however, between the well organized administrative structure and development of education itself. The heavily centralized educational administration bring a still stronger centralizing tendency, thus strengthening already consolidated structures of educational administration. As the result, these countries have come to have a complete set of carefully organized administrative systems which sometimes surpasses those of advanced countries. The largest problems the people who are concerned about education in these countries must face is to put the strongest stress on the development of education itself, departing from mere concern about the establishment of administrative systems. It is the belief of the author that such a comparison as that attempted here will be fruitful for the study of comparative education as well as the comparative study of administration.