Research on Career Education and Social Justice in Higher Education

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K21798
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 9:Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: Maeda Nobuhiko 立命館大学, 産業社会学部, 教授 (20222284)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-06-28 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: キャリア教育 / 社会正義 / ライフキャリア教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

“Career education” is an area where the needs of vocational education and school education intersect, but in recent years, the meaning of “preparatory education for work” has become particularly strong. But is university career education really just about vocational education for the labor market? On the other hand, there has been an increasing interest in career education aimed at “social justice” or “social equity” in recent years, mainly in North America and Europe. However, such research is extremely limited in Japan. Taking into account some findings of previous research, I will conduct an exploratory analysis based on some of the research data. In this research practical implication in terms of the direction of new career education aiming for “justice” will be indicated.

Free Research Field

社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

我が国の先行研究を振り返ってみると、「社会正義」の概念に依拠しながらキャリア教育と公共的関心(public interest)や公共的関わりについて検討した研究はきわめて少ない。このことから、欧州等の最新のキャリア教育の研究動向を踏まえ、我が国の実態を実証的に明らかにし、それを理論的観点から考察することは、新たなキャリア教育を展開する上で社会的な意義がある。また「社会正義」あるいは民主主義の発展を視野に入れたキャリア教育研究の領域開拓という点において学術的な意義がある。