著者

池田 秀男

出版者

東洋館

雑誌

教育社会学研究 (ISSN:03873145)

巻号頁・発行日

no.26, pp.38-52, 1971-10

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The purpose of this paper is to present a summary of the analysis of students' preferences for senior secondary curriculum and their course selectivity in relation to college aspirations. We attempted to approach this study from three aspects. First we looked at hierarchies and at inter-course relationships in preferences as revealed by examination patterns at entrance and by senior-year "hindsight" preferences in relation to the courses in which the respondents were actually enrolled. We then examined stability and shifts in preferences from examination and entry to graduation. Finally, we looked into senior-year "hindsight" preferences in relation to the reasons expressed for those preferences, their relation to college aspirations, and the reasons why dissatisfied students were enrolled in other than the curriculum that, as seniors, they preferred. The data used in this paper were based upon the responses to the questionnaires entitled "Research on Course Selectivty and Career Perspectives Among Male Upper-Secondary Students", which were administered in the middle of December 1966, to 72007 senior secondary students sampled from all over Japan, except the north-eastern parts to the Kanto-disrtrict. The paper reports four findings (1) preference patterns and realization, (2) stability, focused adjustment, and instability in course preferences, (3) same inter-pretations of choices and preferences, and (4) some impacts of college aspirations upon the course preferences among senior secondary school students. In the process of the analysis, the author has introduced some new concepts: One of them is the course preference patterns with three symbols and three digit locations in order to analyze their stability and shifts; on the other hand the author constructed four types of college aspirations to carry an analysis of the impacts of the college aspirations upon "hindsight" preferences for senior secondary curriculum. The paper is characterized by these concepts which are in the key positions of the analysis.