2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Japan-U.S. Comparison of Electrical Engineering Education before and after World War II and the Establishment of the Association for the Advancement of Electrical Engineering Education (AAEEE)
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17K04584
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Education
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | 大学電気教官協議会 / 古賀逸策 / Frank A. Polkinghorn / GHQ/SCAP / 日本工業教育協会 / 技術者倫理 / R&D / democracy |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
After the WWII and before the establishment of the Japanese Society for Engineering Education in 1952, the Association for the Advancement of Electrical Engineering Education was established, its industry-academia cooperation was promoted with the top managers of the Federation of Japan Electric Communications Industrial Association, and engineering ethics became a major issue. They were introduced by Frank A. Polkinghorn of the GHQ/SCAP's Civil Communications Section (CCS). This research on the GHQ's R&D policy revealed the historical details and relationship between the engineering education reform and the Electrical Communication Laboratory, which introduced the concept of development, and the CCS management course, a starting point of the postwar quality control. Under the postwar idea of democratization, Japanese leaders of engineering education reform, especially Issac Koga and Kinji Shimizu, emphasized the American engineering ethics and tried to introduce them into Japan.
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| Free Research Field |
教育史
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
これまでの高等教育史研究では、戦後復興期の工学教育分野についての研究が不十分であった。これまでにも例えば1970年前後には東大工学部で工学部改革論が展開され、1980年代後半以降には全国的な工学部改革論がさまざまな形で議論されてきたが、このように戦後教育の出発点に対する歴史認識が不十分であったため、同じような論点が繰り返されてきた。議論が深まらない結果として、大学において表面的な産学連携やイノベーション志向が拡大しているという懸念もある。本研究は日本の工学教育史の再評価を通じて、このような現状への省察を深めるための判断材料を提供することが期待できる。
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