1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Recent Trends in Japanese Undergraduate Curriculum in Terms of Career-related/Research-related/Culture-related Education
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05610223
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | Tamagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
TANAKA Yoshiro Tamagawa Univ.Education, Associate Prof., 文学部, 助教授 (00188351)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1994
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| Keywords | Undergraduate educ.reform / undergraduate curriculum / University-society alliance in higher education / undergraduate education / Culture-related educ.university / Research-related educ.university / Career-related educ.university / Comparative higher education |
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| Research Abstract |
Today Japanese college and university undergraduate curriculum is directing to consumer-oriented career/culture -related one.J.Ben-David (1972) said that American colleges and universities developed when they were considered as placement agencies, historically speaking.And E.L.Boyer (1987) said that the push toward career-related education had come to dominate most campuses and, during the past fifteen years, it had dramatically increased in American colleges and universities.Recently, a similar phenomenon has been observed in Japanese colleges and universities.However, the college and university development process of two nations is very different.Although from the beginning, American colleges and universities have been practicing consumer-oriented education, Japanese ones have not functioned like those.In Japanese colleges and universities.However, the college and university develpoment process of two nations is very different.Although from the beginning, American colleges and universities have been practicing consumer-oriented education, Japanese ones have not functioned like those.In Japanese colleges and universities, the notion of consumer-oriented career-related education is a newly introduced one and it is a very much today's issue.Then, Japanese colleges and universities are now making sfforts to create their own curriculum development models under the national deregulation policy in higher education.
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