20610 産業・経済に関わる教育への新手法の試み : 第3報 海外留学生の為の講義"The Contemporary Economy of Japan"へのCollaborative Learning Approachの適用(技術教育・工学教育(2),OS.8 技術教育・工学教育)

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The author has taught a course entitled "The Contemporary Economy of Japan" in Fall Semester of Year 2003 for a total of fourteen, American, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Venezuelan undergraduate students at Tokyo Center of the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), headquartered in Chicago. All these students were registered at their home universities throughout the continental United States. The approaches similar to those shown in the author's previous reports, including coach learning, were applied to the subject course, with the following, special care taken for the students. Those course attendees were requested to submit their home works, such as construction of a comparative economic history of their own home nations (or states) and Japan, at an early stage of the semester, and they were encouraged to conduct studies of economic relationship between their home nations (or states) and Japan for their final semester report. It was also encouraged for the students to exchange information of their mutual home nations and/or states to improve their reports. In addition, the students had valuable experiences during their field trips to leading Japanese financial, economic research, and trade institutions. At the end of the semester, all course attendees had opportunities to present outcomes of their studies and to discuss with their classmates and lecturer on their own subjects both orally and in a written form. The students, therefore, had an opportunity to improve their own reports before they submitted the final reports. During this process, the course attendees could widen and deepen their understanding of the course subjects of their own interest, in particular, with their enhanced motivation, leading to their finding of prospective, career opportunities and further research topics and themes they may wish to pursue.