Comparative Study of Upper Secondary Education in Late Industrialized Countries

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25705014
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Chukyo University
• Principal Investigator: AIZAWA Shinichi 中京大学, 現代社会学部, 准教授 (00456196)
• Research Collaborator: ITO Miho 神田外語大学 ; KAGAWA Mei 東京大学 ; KODAMA Hideyasu 洛星中学, 高等学校 ; SIM Choon Kiat 昭和女子大学 ; TAKI Hirofumi 法政大学 ; TANAKA Mitsuharu 東北大学 ; Rappeleye Jeremy 京都大学 ; CHEUNG Yuk-man 香港中文大学 ; Jiang JIN 嶺南大学 ; KARIYA Takehiko オックスフォード大学 ; LIU Yu-fei 中國文化大学
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 高等学校（高校） / 教育拡大 / 東アジア / 東南アジア / 後発産業化 / 私立学校 / 普通科と職業科 / 経済発展

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our team’s research project undertakes comparative analyses of the expansion of upper secondary education in East Asia. We are particularly interested in the impact of educational expansion on social change in late industrialized countries. We execute comparative surveys about the social characteristics related to the expansion of secondary education and social transformation in late industrialized/industrializing countries. Particularly, we compare these countries from two perspectives, public/private schools and general/vocational courses, because we consider the East Asian characteristics and key findings for successful late industrialization through analyses from these two axes. Through these comparisons, we seek to uncover both similarities and differences in the processes of expansion of secondary education in various regions in our rapidly globalizing world.

Free Research Field

教育社会学・比較社会学・歴史社会学