Educational Credentialism as a Paradox

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  • パラドックスとしての学歴主義
  • パラドックス トシテノ ガクレキ シュギ パーソナリティ システム ト ノ カ
  • its relation with personality system
  • パーソナリティ・システムとの関わりをめぐって

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In order to be the self-referential system, the educational system has to reflect the credentialism. In 1980's the Japanese credentialism has fallen into the paradox. That is, the cult of taking entrance examination become exalted, while the effect of educational career has fallen. This article investigates this phenomenon with the aid of the theory of media of N. Luhmann. According to his media theory, the educational career contains its own paradox.<BR>Using the media of the educational career, one can say at the same time that one is equal with the other and one is different from the other.<BR>On the other hand, the complex restrictedness of the Japanese credentialism does not allow interpret the relation between the educational system and the personality system by his concept of “interpenetration”. There exists the one-sided penetration from the latter to the former.<BR>By this mechanism, the parodox inherent in the media of educational career is transposed from the educational system to the motivation of the personality system. The personality system is contended with the paradox, because there is no other way of finding his identity. The function of the credentialism today is to give him the pseudo-identity.

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