The Central Issues of Industrial Education in the Change of Employment Structure

DOI Web Site

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • 雇用構造の変化と産業教育の課題
  • コヨウ コウゾウ ノ ヘンカ ト サンギョウ キョウイク ノ カダイ

Search this article

Description

The industrial structure of developed countries tends to shift its importance from manufacture to service industry, accordingly to transfer work force from the second industries to the third industries. Especially in Japan, the transference is expected to be rapid in near future, and it is estimated that work force will be reduced in almost all industries except service industries by 2010. Under such circumstances, one of the most important issues in industrial education is to develop the abilities to adapt actively to the changing work world. Many programs as the following have been suggested, several plans in these have been implemented already; shifting educational emphasis from groupism to individualism, developing research and development personnel, educating media literacy from early stage of school, fostering the abilities of cross-cultural communication, implementing life redesign program more widely than now, promoting non-fulltime worker training programs more, consolidating life long integrated education system all over the country, and so forth. Though these kinds of programs are deserved to be considered respectively, they are not human being oriented but vocation oriented at all. Of course, industrial education is concerned about both aspects of vocation and human being, but the educational activities are to related directly human affairs. Now, we have to make efforts more to develop ego identities of working people and coming people, as the fulcrum to move themselves towards the new work world. The central issue of industrial education in changing world is to develop ego identitiy of every person.

Journal

Details 詳細情報について

Report a problem

Back to top