The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristic of the course of "Agricultural Machinery", which is among one of the course of "Agriculture" according to the transition of its establishment and outline edited by each upper secondary school. The course of "Agricultural Machinery" has been statistically established since 1962. Although the number of course of "Food Production" and "Agricultural Civil Engineering" which are in the same group of course named "Course of Training Agricultural Engineers", has extremely increased in 1960s. The number of course of "Agricultural Machinery" didn't tend to increase like the number of those course. The course of "Agricultural Machinery" has been established and abolished repeatedly at each upper secondary school. The cause of these phenomena depends on agricultural policy based on "The Fundamentals of Agricultural Law" and educational contents equivalent of policy in this course. Since the enactment of "The Fundamentals of Agricultural Law", agricultural policy has pursued to extend the area of farm in scale per one farm family and to introduce big agricultural machines. But this plan went so wrong that each policy of agriculture has been modified over and over again. In addition to the above, some course of "Agricultural Machinery" has been changed to course of "Machinery" and "Motor Vehicle" which are involved among course of "Industry". According to the analysis of curricula in the course of "Agricultural Machinery", there is a small number of credits for subject "Agricultural Machiery" and there are numbers of credits for subjects related with "Industry" and there is, however, a small number credits for "Drawing" comparing with the course of expected to master not planning and developing of agricultural machines but operating and repairing them. If the purpose of the course of "Agricultural Machinery" is as the same as stated above, the author can't help indicating that the number in this course wouldn't increase more than before.
抄録全体を表示