Subject | Education

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Higher Education and Universities in Japan from a historical perspective

This course is designed to understand the characteristics of Japanese universities and higher education from a historical perspective. First, regarding the prewar period, the course will review the establishment of the Imperial University and its position in the modernization of the Meiji period. Then, the expansion of universities in the Taisho period and the mobilization of students under the wartime regime will be explained. Second, regarding the postwar period, we will review postwar educational reforms and the new university system, university expansion and university conflicts during the period of rapid economic growth, the "leisure landization" of the 1970s and 1980s, and the re-expansion of universities and its impact since the 1990s. Through these contents, the current state of Japanese universities and their relationship with the state will be presented in a Japanese characteristic.

Content/学習内容

Staff/スタッフ

    • Teacher
    Yuji Shirakawa
    Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies
    Chiba University

Competency/コンピテンシー

Learning Goal

  • To understand the historical development of higher education in Japan.
  • To understand the characteristics of Japanese universities and higher education.
  • To understand that changes in universities and higher education are closely related to changes in the nation and society.

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