アメリカのビジネス・スクールにおける専門職教育の構築過程

シカゴ大学の事例を中心として

抄録

　 Professional education at the university level is one of the key issues for higher education in Japan. Similarly, integrating professional business education with a liberal education has been a major issue in American higher education for a long time. This paper will illustrate the processes of how the pioneering business school at the University of Chicago went about constructing a system of professional education in the early 1900s. When it was founded, the business school at Chicago was confronted with many difficulties. It did not have independent status and only a small amount of funds. Under these severe conditions, it was a very difficult task for the business school to construct its own courses distinct from the curriculum offered at the other existing colleges. Trying to overcome this situation, the business school worked hard in the 1910s to establish a system of professional education for business. It did not limit its educational domain to the business field and tried to integrate every stage of university education into one effective system. Each course or academic field was made significant within the new system. A student’s entire educational experience should be one of academic synthesis. This is the essential point even for current professional education in universities.