The Japanese Journal of career education
Online ISSN : 2432-3934
Print ISSN : 1881-3755
ISSN-L : 1881-3755
Volume 26, Issue 2
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  • Yuki MOCHIZUKI
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 49-56
    Published: June 15, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
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    The influence on high school students' educational aspirations exerted by the expansion of special admission examinations was reviewed by focusing attention on the academic levels of each high school. As a result, it was found that students at medium to low academic level schools had a strong desire to proceed to higher education due to special admission examinations, particularly expansion of Admissions Office examinations. It was also clarified that the students' aspirations were intensified with regard to national and public universities. However, many of the students changed their choice of university when faced with examinations based on academic ability, and a tendency was also seen that students were not academically prepared to cope with examinations based on academic ability. As the background to this, it was suggested that there were differences in reasons for taking a special admission examination and situating the examination according to each academic level of each high school.
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  • Koji MATSUMOTO
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 57-67
    Published: June 15, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
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    This article discusses the structure and formative factors of high school students' occupational values, focusing on their relationships with the occupational role models they have, based on a questionnaire survey for 2,191 students from twenty high schools in six prefectures. The result of this survey is as follows. Occupational values are composed of 5 orientations: self-actualization; social contribution; promotion; living; and social mission and roles. High school students are oriented more to living and self-actualization than to the other orientations. Also, there are differences in the extents of the orientations between the genders and ones among the courses taught at school. Moreover, this survey shows the relationships between each of the students' occupational values and his/her view of society and life, the path that he/she hopes to take after graduation, and whether or not he/she has given the name of the occupation he/she hopes to pursue in the future. Especially, about the relationships with the occupational role models they have, it was found that positive role models facilitate the formation of their occupational values, whereas negative role models prevent that. They tend to regard people close to them such as their fathers and teachers, and well-known people in the mass media, as such models. The students who don't have role models also tend to have negative occupational values. These findings suggest that we need to investigate in more detail the relationships among the factors in the formation of occupational values.
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  • Keiko TAKAHASHI
    Article type: Article
    2008 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 69-79
    Published: June 15, 2008
    Released on J-STAGE: June 24, 2017
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