| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北師範學院 === 教育政策與管理研究所 === 92 === A study of the relationship between the formation and promotion of local educational policies－take Keelung city for example
Abstract
The research was to explore the recent situation and the relationship between the formation and the promotion of the educational policies in local education system, to understand the different points of view among the teachers and the educational adminstrators, hoping to offer some references for the educational administration units and the executives of the policies, to provide educational administrators and teachers with mutual understanding about the formation and the promotion of the educational policies to establish the mutual confidence mechanism.
The researcher adopted documentary analyses and questionnaire survey as the major research methods and interview as the minor method. The research instruments include “the questionnaire on the formation of local educational policies” and “the questionnaire on the promotion of local educational policies.” 475 people were sampled in this study. The researcher also interviewed 6 principals and educational administrators. Data obtained in this research was analyzed through mean, T-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation test. The researcher drew conclusions as follows:
1. Teachers and educational administrators in elementary and junior high schools regard the subjects of the county and city educational policies as the laws and requests from central educational administrations
2. Teachers and educational administrators in elementary and junior high schools think the plans of county and city education proposals are based on the policies of central government but can’t correspond with people’s needs.
3. Teachers and educational administrators in elementary and junior high schools think the legalization of county and city educational policies is often influenced by political consideration.
4. Teachers and educational administrators in elementary and junior high schools think the organization of policies promotion is the most important dimension of local educational policies’ promotion.
5. Teachers and educational administrators in elementary and junior high schools think the bureau of education is the main organization for the promotion of local educational policies while the special education groups still have less effect upon the promotion of local educational policies.
6. The mass media extremely affects the promotion of local educational policies. Teachers and educational administrators in elementary and junior high schools generally think the county and city bureau of education doesn’t have enough funds to promote local educational policies.
7. Generally speaking, the County and city government has included the promotion of local education policies in the school supervision and examination items.
8. As for the formation and promotion of local educational policies, there are significant differences among teachers and educational administrators who have different backgrounds.
9. For the formation and promotion of local educational policies, teachers and educational administrators are significantly positively related. The higher grades teachers and educational administrators get in “the questionnaire on,” the higher grades they would get in “the questionnaire on the promotion of local educational policies.”
10. Teachers and educational administrators’ points of view toward the formation of local educational policies predict the results of the promotion of local educational policies.
According to the findings and conclusions above, the following suggestions are proposed:
1. Suggestions to educational administrations
(1) To implement the manner of educational budgeting, to allocate enough budget legally, and to increase the local educational budget and the personnel organization of county and city bureau of education.
(2) Besides referred to the laws and requests from central educational administrations, subjects of the local educational policies should be chosen and planned carefully according to the local specialties and public opinions.
(3) Educational administrators should voluntarily tell the media the planning of educational policies by detail accurately to enhance the accurate report from the media and to strive for people’s support. Educational administrators ought to be pay much attention to the reactions of the media and amend the policies timely to make the policies
(4) To use the sanction mechanism properly to carry out the local educational policies.
2. Suggestions to future related researches
(1) To expand further the investigation areas and research objects.
(2) To increase qualitative researches, collect materials thoroughly, and then construct a paradigm which emphasizes qualitative and quantitative and quantitative methods equally to supplement the investigation of the questionnaires.
Key Words: educational policies, local educational policies, the formation of educational policies, the promotion of educational policies
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