Abstract
Five years has passed since “Circulation/Service” was, as a new subject (elective subject) related to special education, established for schools for mentally disabled students (today's special support schools) in the existing courses of study for schools for the blind, schools for the deaf-mute, and upper secondary departments of special support schools for disabled students.
From the upper secondary department of special support schools which attribute importance to vocational education for lightly mentally disabled students and special support schools which have vocational courses and subjects for such students, I chose and visited thirty-three schools which have subject “Circulation/Service”, and collected materials on circumstances of vocational education and conducted interview research.
As the result, It turned out that although the circumstances of special subjects are various, there are some types of schools such as (1) schools which adds some fields of “Circulation/ Service” to old subjects such as “Home Economics”, “Agriculture”, or “Technology” and (2) schools which attribute importance to one or plural fields of the new subject “Circulation/Service”.
I considered this result from a perspective of career development based on the character of disabilities.
