Case Study of University Students' Peer Group Activities in the Career Development Processes : from Developmental Network and Mental Abilities in Socialization Perspectives

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  • 大学生のキャリア発達過程におけるピア間活動の事例研究：「発達的ネットワーク」および「社会人基礎力」の観点から
  • ダイガクセイ ノ キャリア ハッタツ カテイ ニ オケル ピア カン カツドウ ノ ジレイ ケンキュウ : 「 ハッタツテキ ネットワーク 」 オヨビ 「 シャカイジン キソリョク 」 ノ カンテン カラ

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In these recent years, educational programs at universities in Japan have been requested to enhance versatile abilities in addition to specialty. For example, the reports submitted from the educational committees include versatile abilities, e.g. communication skills, problem-solving in "requirements of bachelor's degree". And in the proposals from the business community, developing human resources who can capture the essence of problems, and act to find ways of dealing with problems is highly recommended.The author has been facilitating university-company cooperative project-based learning for the 3rd year students' seminar. Its effects to enhance specialty and socialization through applying students' specialty to problem-solving processes and providing more opportunities of communication have been verified at a certain level. Based on the result that one of the key factors to enhance students' socialization seems peer to peer collaborations, in this paper, a peer group activity, i.e." Students' Career Assistant" at the university where the author is working for and similar cases in other organizations are focused on. And, studies are undertaken from" developmental network" and "mental abilities in socialization" perspectives. After grasping how the network can be built up and mental abilities can be demonstrated in the peer group activities, a model is put forward as hypotheses.

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