高等専門学校の高学年における地理教育の展開

世界地誌を中心として

抄録

The purpose of this paper is to consider how we should teach geography at a college of technology, one of higher educational facilities. At the same time, the author consider what they should do in the geography teaching to young people at the age of twenty. For this study, the author put his teaching plan into practice, and later he examined questionnaires and opinions written by the students.
As a result, the following became clear. The most important thing, as the purpose of the geographical education in the upper school years at a college of technology, is to let them understand the present international society with a global view. Lectures of world regional geography the author gives normally with topics that are thought to be important to understand the present international society. The author tried to develop the students' general understanding of the problems which the present world faces and its status quo. Racial and ethnic problems are emphasized in his lectures within the general framework of political geography. At the end of his lectures, nations in the Pacific Region are treated by using the method of dynamic regional geography. When teaching, both lecture method and audiovisual method are employed, but normally he put more emphasis on the latter. For evaluation, examination in the form of a paper is best, but it is necessary how they should mark it objectively.