2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An innovation of High School to College Articulation -In order to overcome a separation of humanities and science -

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23650497
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Science education
Research Institution	Yamagata University
Principal Investigator	KAWANO Ginko 山形大学, 地域教育文化学部, 准教授 (10282196)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	文理選択 / 高大接続 / 教育課程 / 大学入試
Research Abstract	Based on the reality that the classification of knowledge into humanities and sciences has affected one's choice of colleges or jobs, this study made the following attempts: First, to grasp how the social awareness toward this classification has changed. Second, how this knowledge dichotomy has formed. Specifically, in the first attempt, the change in social awareness toward humanities and science course was identified through the analysis of the articles relevant to this theme in national newspapers. As for the second attempt, 525 high schools were randomly selected from across the nationwide and their two-year curriculums were collected and categorized. In parallel, interviews with faculty members of high schools and universities were conducted.

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