Reconsidering Career Education from the Viewpoint of Theory of General Education:

“Vocational Education”through Science Education

Abstract

　　The reconsideration of this paper is carried out through re-examining how pedagogy of post-war Japan discuss general education.  Scientific knowledge has the function which abstracts common elements among various industrial technology.  Therefore the“ vocational education” that differs from vocational education for a particular vocation becomes possible through science education.  Here this paper finds out the ground that scientific knowledge is employed as the contents of“ vocational education” in general education.  Thus it become the problem to be solved how we develop contents of science education from standpoint of relating various industrial technology.  And the general education requires to consider how teachers instruct scientific knowledge for learners to transfer it to unknown situation.  This paper discusses the educational method on the basis of Dewey’s educational theory.  Based on the above consideration, this paper propose contents and methods of“vocational  education” in general education as alternative plan for current career education.