An empirical study of role taking and capacity formation of faculty menbers

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590215
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: Fujimura Masashi 広島大学, 高等教育研究開発センター, 教授 (40181391)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 能力形成 / 基盤研究費 / アクティブラーニング / 競争的外部資金 / 脱連結 / 大学教員 / 高等教育組織存立

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Fiscal constraints, escalating competition, and demands for greater accountability and transparency, seriously affects the capacity formation and development of academic faculties. However, there are few studies on an analysis of changing labor condition of faculty work in Japan, while faculties are struggling with students ability and increased competition for resouces. Using data from the National Survey of Faculties, this study firstly shows that pedagogical methods such as Active Learning recommended by Central Education Council, did not have a significant effect at promoting students understanding of class(except for small class). Second,consecutive reduction for operating expensive for more than 10 years has damaged the continued research. These findings have major implications that management of class size is critical to enhance learning outcome and that raising fixed research fund not only helps to aquire competitive research fund but also to continue research activity.

Free Research Field

教育社会学