A Criticism of Career Education in Japan : Concerning "Communication Ability"

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21730643
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Educaion
Research Institution	Kumamoto University (2011) Keio University (2009-2010)
Principal Investigator	KOBAYASHI Daisuke 熊本大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (50348819)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords	教育思想 / 能力主義 / 教育学 / コミュニケーション
Research Abstract	In this decade Japanese government has promoted Career Education. It expects for schools to develop children's "communication ability". The government explains that this policy is based on the report from the Central Council for Education, which reflects interests of business community. Critical social theory on the one hand reveals that the policy is to spoil potentiality of communicative action and on the other hand raises a problem of how to recognize an action as fairly communicative or not.