This paper based on the field-work of two secondary schools was designed to explore issues,
difficulties and notes of anthropological field-work for policy research. According to the result, the
researcher would find that it is easy to gain a admission into the school and get a consent on
the research compared with other individual researches. The researcher should interact with
vice-principal for the study scheduling and intermediation of study participant, face and deal with
non-cooperations of vice-principal. In addition, the field-worker must not only get motivations for
the research out of teacher-coworkers who usually are inactive and halfhearted for study support,
but also handle the changeable situations of student-coworkers who are hardly have spare time
for interviews in their school time and very busy for private schedule after school. Furthermore,
there are generally some periods such as examination periods, vacations and school event day etc.
which the research activities are not allowed in schools, so that the practical research time turned
out to be much shorter than official term of the research. Finally, this article suggests some
attention points for the researcher who try to do a fieldwork for policy research in secondary
schools. Most of all, the fieldworker should not be excited about the formal, superficial allowance
on the research and, instead, seek after every consent of the each coworker one by one explaining
the purpose or method of research in detail. In addition, in case one would happen to meet
uncooperative, disobliging vice-principal, it would be better to find out alternative ways such as
referring to informations provided by other teachers, various posts or bulletins on the wall of the
school to collect data rather than just depending on vice-principal and looking for his information.
The fieldworker, at the same time, should not only put the situation of coworkers’ before one’s
own to give an impulsion for fieldwork itself, but also try to make full use of opportunities
offered to oneself to make another chances for data-collecting.