- 著者
- 堀口 誠信
- 出版者
- 徳島文理大学
- 雑誌
- 徳島文理大学研究紀要 (ISSN:02869829)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.81, pp.21-30, 2011-03
This paper investigates how Japanese college students perceive "school" based on which TV dramas depicting "school life," among hundreds based on this theme, they choose to watch and which parts of these TV dramas they value or criticize. In order to find the aspects they like most and sympathize highly in such programs, I adopted a 10-score scale which evaluates businessmen's basic 12 skills such as the skill to suppress psychological stresses, the one to commit in a project, and the one to organize possible plans in advance. This scale was originally proposed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2006 and is now widely used for judging various skills, other than academic study skills, of college students or businessmen. Japanese TV "school life" dramas tend to avoid scenes of studying in classrooms because they are boring to viewers, so that the businessmen's scale is ideal for the students to evaluate their favorite TV dramas. The 16 college students I surveyed cited 15 different TV dramas such as Gokusen(Lady Yakuza Teacher), GTO(Great Teacher Mr. Onizuka), My Boss and My Hero(Big Brother, or my Classmate),Joo no Kyoshitsu(Tyrant Queen Controlling Classroom), Dragon Sakura(Cherry Tree in Dragon HighSchool) or Kinpachi Sensei(Kinpachi, our Teacher). As for the evaluation of their favorite dramas, I found, through the analysis of the gathered data, the tendency for the college students to value mosthighly dramas and characters in the fields they feel their skills are weak, and not to value in the fields they feel their skills are strong. I presupposed, however, that these phenomena are only on the surface and discussed further as to what is going on deep in their minds. *Acknowledgment: This work includes the result of the research supported by KAKENHI (20530870),or Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) ["Establishing the Method to Develop Presentation Skills and the Criteria in Evaluating Presentations by Referring to the FINNISH METHOD of Education"]by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The 12 skills included in the businessmen's evaluation scale correspond to various curricular items to be taught in what is called "the FINNISHMETHOD of education."
- 著者
- 堀口 誠信
- 出版者
- 徳島文理大学
- 雑誌
- 徳島文理大学研究紀要 (ISSN:02869829)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.78, pp.83-94, 2009-09
This paper focuses on the educational philosophy in Finland which has led studentsthere to reach the highest rank in the world in many achievement tests such as TOEFL orPISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). As a result of such success,many researchers are visiting Finland these days, and, in November 2008, I went therewith the specific purpose to establish a method of developing presentation skills among collegestudents and fixing the criteria in evaluating these students' presentations in Japan.By showing how classes in Finland are conducted, I will discuss the ideology of Finnisheducation, or "the FINNISH METHOD of education."The FINNISH METHOD of education is based on how effectively teachers can helpstudents acquire communicative skills through discussion. In the FINNISH METHOD,"discussion" doesn't simply mean talking with others but two parties coming to a conclusionwhich is favorable to both parties. This is done by persuading the other party, recognizingthe different values of others, and, sometimes, getting through hardships of confrontingopposite opinions. This special idea of "discussion" can be applied to help studentsobtain skills to solve problems in groups and obtain a sense of global communication skills.Both skills are best adapted to solve the PISA tests, but the Finnish Educational Ministrystarted to emphasize these two skills not because they would like to raise the students'scores in PISA but because the Finnish people came to realize the importance of these conceptsin order to survive the terrible economic situation after the collapse of the SovietUnion in the 1990s, which used to be the biggest market for Finland. In order to build awelfare nation, Finnish people had to develop skills to solve problems in groups, not individually,and, living in a small country surrounded by such big nations as Sweden or theSoviet Union, they had to develop necessary global communication skills.※Acknowledgment : This work includes the result of the research supported by KAKENHI(20530870), or Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) ["Establishing the Method toDevelop Presentation Skills and the Criteria in Evaluating Presentations by Referring tothe FINNISH METHOD of Education"] by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS).