「総合学科」高校生の科目選択過程に関する事例研究

選択制カリキュラムへの社会学的アプローチ

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the reality of processes of “Sogo Gakka” senior high-school students' choice of subjects from the viewpoint of their interaction with teachers and other students.
“Sogo Gakka” is attracting the attention of educators because this is different from the conventional high-school system in that students make their curriculum for themselves. But in most discussions, little attention has been given to how the curriculum controls students' subjects choice actions.
In this study, I observed how students adjust themselves to the constrained situation of subject choice in school, based on ethnographic research in “Sogo Gakka” at S High School. Then, this study focuses attention on 1) the characteristics of students' career perspectives that they construct in the process of choosing subjects, and 2) the keiretu that is set as guidelines to students' choice of subjects.
The results of the research are that 1) students have keiretu“membership consciousness” whereas keiretu are only intended as guidelines, so they choose subjects with reference to keiretu. 2) Students take the control from keiretu for granted as a result of interactions with teachers who intend to maintain the system of keiretu. 3) Students' choice of subjects is not a rational action based on career perspectives, because they consturct career perspectives in accordance with the result of their choice of subjects. 4) The current curriculum in “Sogo Gakka” is difficult to establesh as concrete guidelines for students' career.
These results suggest that option systems for curriculum in Japanese high school need to be reconsidered from a viewpoint of relevance to each student's composition of elective subjects, not from a viewpoint of their career.