盲学校通学児の親の教育費支出について
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On analyzing educational expenditures, we use two economical methods. One is input-output analysis by which educational investment theory is discussed, and the other is the consumers' choice analysis which is micro-economics. The latter is profitable when we consider householders' educational expenditures. Thus adopting the method of consumers' choice analysis, we positively analyzed educational expenditures paid by parents of pupils attending schools for the blind and pursued the problems of education for the visual handicapped from this economical standpoint. The following investigation, as one means to attain this research aim, was utilized. The subjects of investigation were all visual handicapped pupils attending schools for the blind in Japan, and questionnaire used consisted of the total annual incomes of their households, and the sums and items of educational expenditures. The questionnaires were sent by mail, and completed by their parents. Considering the result of the investigation and summary of the findings, we can point out the following. 1. Total educational expenditures paid by parents of visual handicapped pupils are not as large of an amount as those paid by normal pupils. 2. As the number of schools for the blind are few, most visual handicapped pupils must travel greater distances to attend school. Thus, parents of visual handicapped pupils spend a larger amount of money on the cost of transportation. 3. On home educational expenditures, parents of visual handicapped pupils spend less than those of normal pupils. 4. In the case of visual handicapped as well as normal pupils, the elasticity of income of school educational expenditures is higher than that of home educational expenditures. 5. The elasticity of income of home educational expenditures of visual handicapped pupils, is lower than that of normal pupils. Educational expenditures paid by parents of visual handicapped pupils are less than those which are paid by parents of normal pupils. The higher their incomes are, the larger the difference is between them. It is not unrealistic to assume that other reasons besides incomes could be considered; e. g. the personality of parents, and various factors of this society. One could further assume that the latter reasons might be more important than the former. Consequently, it might behoove us, hereafter, to examine the problems of educational expenditures for the visual handicapped, using sociological or psychological methods.
- 日本特殊教育学会の論文
- 1972-06-01