Non-University Higher Education, and Qualification Framework
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Date (from‐to) : 2009 -2012
Author : YOSHIMOTO Keiichi; INENAGA Yuki; OGATA Naoyuki; KAMENO Jun; TACHI Akira; TSUKAHARA Shuichi; NUMAGUCHI Hiroshi; YOSHIKAWA Yumiko; SUGIMOTO Kazuhiro; ETO Chisako; MURASAWA Masataka; ABE Emiko; HASEGAWA Yusuke; SHINTANI Yasuhiro; HAMANAKA Yoshitaka; WATANABE Tatsuo; KAWAMATA Misako; AKINAGA Yuichi; NAGATA Kazuyuki; ARIMOTO Akira; SATO Hiroki; TATEISHI Kazuko; TSUBAKI Akemi; YAMADA Hiroshi; HIRATA Shinichi; SUGANO Kunihiro; ZHANG Lin; NAGAO Yukiko; FUJIKAWA Hideyuki; WATANABE Kazuaki; WAGA Takashi; ISHIDA Hiroki; OHTA Satoe; TEICHLER Ulrich; ACHI Ron Mazz; MOUILLOUR Isabelle Le; DUNKEL Torsten; WERQUIN Patrick; ROH Kyung-ran
This research focused on Junior colleges and professional training colleges as non-university higher education sectors and researched the characteristics of their educational programs with three perspectives, namely “control of education”, “methodology of education” and “goals of education”. We aimed to reveal their specialties with vocational education-oriented approach empirically in contrast with academic-oriented one in universities. Moreover, as policy scientific research we searched the possibilities of national qualifications frameworks in order to improvesocial cognition for non-university education system and their quality assurance. Further, we conducted field studies of non-university higher education institutions abroad. On commencement of this research, we have created four classifications including the “national license sector”, the “industrial sector”, the “commerce and business sector” and the “design, contents and others sector”. We did more field surveys domestic and abroad and revealed their mutual aspects and differentiated trends of their curriculum. Secondly, based on these results we surveyed teaching staff and institutions of junior colleges and professional training colleges nationwide. Through this survey, we clarified the formation of various competencies such as excellence in vocational practice, academic activities, educational qualification and management ability. We found unique operational style of each type of institution. Finally, we did graduate survey focusing their careers and evaluating their graduating colleges.During this research period we held several international seminars at each research stage such as kickoff point, a halfway point and closing points and also had opportunities to present our research results through academic meetings of Japan Association of Higher Education Research and so on.