A Study of Low Academic Achievement of School Boys and Girls form BURAKU -Focusing on the Parentsu27 View of Academic Achievement-

摘要

The purpose of this study is to clarify the view of academic achievement peculiar to the BURAKU parents. Because the difference of the view of academic achievement between the BURAKU parents and the parents other than BURAKU is considered to be the background factor of low academic achievement of school boys and girls from BURAKU. Respondents are 160 school boys and girls, including 43 from BURAKU. As a result of analysis, it became clear that while the BURAKU parents consider it is important to make their children gain academic achievement, they don’t regard academic achievement as the means to gain educational credential. About the formation process of such the view of academic achievement, explanation was tried from the following two: “caste barrier” and “absence of familiar persons who have high educational credential”.