船員通信教育(高等科)についての若干の調査(日本航海学会第16回講演会)

抄録

The Correspondence Course for Ship Officers was established in Kaigi-Semmon Gakuin in 1951, and its aim is to give knowledge and technical skill necessary for deck and engineering officers. In this paper, we shall report the result of our recent survey on the actual condititions and opinions of the correspondence-students. According to the survey, generally ship officers under 35 years old the main source of the students, and they consist of the graduates of all seafarers' educational institutions in Japan and others. Such content as useful to fulfil their duties successfully is supported as the aim of compiling text-books, Such instructive activities as question & answers, reports and schooling are to be taken up more positively. On the educational management, the speciality of ocean-going ship service is to be fully considered. In conclusion, it is important to realize "a correspondence instruction of the ship officers, by the ship officers, for the ship officers".