工学分野におけるFDの背景と課題

抄録

Looking at the perspective and the status quo of faculty development movement in Japan, I consider it necessary to specify what part of the university educational reform is really needed and effective. In the field of engineering education, conversion of the educational paradigm from a knowledge instruction type to a knowledge construction one is inevitable. For promoting active learning suitable to the new paradigm, it is required to (1) reconsider the role and weight of traditional research works in undergraduate program, (2) revise class schedule so that students are able to prepare for a class in advance and to finish their homework after the class, and (3) enforce the course work particularly in the subjects concerning liberal arts and sciences. I also touched upon my own experience in organizing a new class for conceptual understanding of integrated science : emphasis was on the way to construct a new teaching and learning strategy under leadership of a professor.