高等教育政策と国立大学教員養成系学部における環境教育 -環境冠学科(課程)を事例として-
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Abstract This paper aims to study the feasibility of developing environmental teaching curricula at Japanese universities. It analyzes the mechanisms necessary to establish such departments, the curricula, and the employment of graduates of environment-related departments in schools of education at Japanese national universities, from the viewpoint of higher education policy. The synergetic effect of the dissemination of environmental education into elementary and secondary education and the change in higher education policy to establish non-teacher-training programs lead to a rapid increase in environment-related departments in schools of education at Japanese national universities. Compared with environment-related departments in other schools, the curricula of these departments do not reflect trends in the specific discipline of Environmental Science, and are similar to that of teacher-training programs in which students can obtain the qualifications necessary to become teachers. The number of graduates from these programs who get jobs with environment-related companies is smaller than the number of graduates from environment-related departments in other schools who go on to work in environment-related fields. That is, environment-related departments in schools of education at Japanese national universities seem, in some ways, to be "second teacher-training programs." It will be necessary to incorporate scientific literacy into the environmental teaching curriculum in these departments at Japanese universities.
- 2011-06-01