The Proceedings of the Tecnology and Society Conference
Online ISSN : 2432-9487
2002
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The Status Quo and Direction of Development in Japanese Technical High School
Kazuo KADOTA
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Pages 33-36

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New high school system started in 1948. It succeeded to various kinds of industrial school. Technical high schools turned out many competent technicains in the field of industory, and they contributed to industrial development of Japan. But from the 1980s, more students hoped to go to a higher education institutions after guraduation from high school, so they preferred to go to a general high school than a technical high school. In recent years, the scale of technical high school has been decreased. Nevertheless, many technical high school students have learned special knowledge and skills through various kinds of handcrafts and experiments. In this paper describes the coorporation between technical high schools and the labor field, and the articulation between technical high schools and institutes and considers teacher's training system concerning the industrial course. Hereafter the education of technical high school should emphasize the subject not only technology but also science and mathenatics related to the world concerning about the occupation and work.
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© 2002 The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
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