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Conflicts and Deviations between Free Schools and Public Education: Redistribution and Recognition as Seen in the Act on Securing Educational Opportunities
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Kato, Miho – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2021
As public education faces multiple issues, including the surfacing of children's struggles in society and the formation of capabilities suited to the times, free schools are tasked with expectations for their role as a supplement to public education, leading to a change in the onetime structure of opposition. However, attention must be paid to the…
Descriptors: Free Schools, Nontraditional Education, Public Education, Educational Legislation
Development of the "Ibasho" Concept in Japanese Education and Youth Work: "Ibasho" as a Place of Refuge and Empowerment for Excluded People
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Tanaka, Haruhiko – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2021
This paper aims to examine the academic significance of the concept of "ibasho" (a place or community one feels at home), which emerged from the problem of truancy in Japanese society in the 1980s. Free schools were created as "places ibasho" for truant children. In the field of youth work, group-work-based youth organizations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Truancy, Empowerment, Inclusion