How is the sport administration in a local government faced with developments of reforms of extracurricular sport activities ?

Abstract

The development of reforms covering extracurricular sport activities at school is one of the most important issues facing sports administration in Japan. Several measures are being discussed to rectify the problems identified with such sport activities. In particular, it has been suggested that relationships with comprehensive community sport club activities should be built in order to alleviate the burden on teachers, enhance expertise in sport instruction, and create suitable sport conditions for individual students. In Japan, however, there are not many existing examples of good relationships between extracurricular sport activities and comprehensive community sport clubs, probably because of disparity between the intentions of sport administrations and those of schools (faculty members). In this research, we conducted an interview survey of 6 former supervisors who had been engaged in sport administration at local government level. They also had experience of being in charge of extracurricular sport activities as school teachers and working as staff members in charge of facilitating comprehensive community sport clubs. Analysis of their statements helped to clarify opinions and attitudes of administrators concerning the development of comprehensive community sport club activities: (1) Through the facilitation of comprehensive clubs, the former supervisors gained much awareness about their own sport instruction. (2) The former supervisors realized that sport administration faces many dilemmas within the educational administrative organizations to which it belongs, thus revealing the structure of conflicts within those organizations. (3) Although they indeed had positive opinions about building good relationships between extracurricular sport activities and comprehensive community sport club, the former supervisors became reluctant to realize such relationships after they resumed working in schools. From the above findings, we conclude that an attitude of reluctance to normalize reform and follow-up exists within sport administration. It can also be said that reform of extracurricular sport activities in Japan will not occur as long as the current system of sport administration and occupational culture is sustained. In Japanese sport administration including local governments, we should positively consider appointing private citizens through whom efforts should be made to change the consciousness of administrative officials and schools (faculty members). Key words : the occupational culture of teachers, dilemma, conflict, aporia キーワード：教員文化，ディレンマ，コンフリクト，アポリア Yuichi Taniguchi: How is the sport administration in a local government faced with developments of reforms of extracurricular sport activities ? : Aspects of administrative situations shown by opinions of former supervisors who took in charge of developing comprehensive community sport clubs. Japan J. Phys. Educ. Hlth. Sport Sci.