大学改革と教養教育 : 再創造と保障への視点 (<特集>教養の解体と再構築)

• 寺崎 昌男

  桜美林大学大学院

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• Toward University Reform: The Development of a Liberal and General Education Curriculum

抄録

The development of a liberal and general education curriculum is the most urgent task facing universities in Japan. In this report, the author, through his experience as a Dean of the Education Department at the University of Tokyo and as a Director of the Center for the Development of General Curriculum at Rikkyo University, proposes his ideas on the development and maintenance of a general and liberal curriculum. His proposals are as follows: l) It is necessary to set new educational goals for undergraduate education. Both Japanese academic society and the people involved should set undergraduate goals in order to produce disciplined youth who have gained new knowledge and developed sensitivity toward problems that face humanity today, and who have found new insights into the future of the world. The traditional understanding that the goal of education is to produce professional people having humanistic culture must be changed. The Japanese university must aim to be an institution for liberal arts education in its pure form. 2) To achieve this aim it is necessary to develop a new curriculum. The curriculum has to include the following four intellectual spheres: The first area is the problems related to the environment, while the second is theories on human rights. The third area is life sciences and philosophy, and the last is knowledge of space. Fifty years ago, when the new course of general education was introduced from United States to Japan, Japanese academics did not consider these four intellectual spheres to be the parts of the general culture that were necessary for the students and the graduates to team about. However, they have become essential parts of general culture and common basics for young intellectuals because learning within these spheres will guide the students to a better understanding of the universal human problems of our age. 3) For the past five years innovations in teaching and curriculum development have progressed remarkably in many universities and junior colleges. However, the greatest problem is how to establish them in a stable, powerful and everlasting system on campuses. Such a system is indispensable to eternal innovation and development, that is to say, to university reform. Unfortunately, national universities seem to have failed to develop such an organization because their internal systems are too static and rigid. The author illustrates a successful case of Center for the Development of the General Curriculum at Rikkyo University, his former office, and he suggests that success of the liberal and general education depends upon changing the mindsets of the members of the faculty. The following attitude needs to be developed: "We belong to the faculty, but at the same time we belong to the department of the liberal and general education department." The author feels that this is key to the new curriculum development that will lead to university reform.

収録刊行物

• 教育学研究

  教育学研究 66 (4), 386-394, 1999

  一般社団法人 日本教育学会

キーワード

• 大学改革
• 教養教育
• 学士課程教育
• リベラル・アーツ
• カリキュラム改革

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205291565696
• NII論文ID: 130003564211
• DOI: 10.11555/kyoiku1932.66.386
• ISSN: 21875278
• ISSN: 03873161
• 本文言語コード: en
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