Japanese Education Curriculum And Management

Being an ideal of university education and a pattern of talent cultivation, general education takes the free-development and self-perfection of human beings as its starting point and aims to cultivate fully-developed talents that are noble in spirit, rich in humanity, profound in knowledge, high-bred in nurture, innovative in thinking and strong in social responsibility. In recent years, many universities in China have attempted to put general education into practice at the undergraduate level. However, if general education wants to go further, it inevitably involves the issues of curriculum provision and management, which are the sticking points for general education to rise up from ideal to practice.By using many kinds of social scientific methods from the perspective of curriculum and teaching methodology, with the assistance of concrete case study, this paper takes the curriculum provision and management of general education in Japanese universities as the research object and gives a summarization of its experience based on the study of its history and current development in the two periods of stage before and after the 1990s. Then by the analysis of concrete cases, it goes on to investigate the current situation of the curriculum provision and management of general education in Chinese universities, on the basis of which this paper proposes some suggestions with the experience of Japan as reference. The author of this paper suggests that the experience of the curriculum provision and management of general education in Japanese universities is in essence the experience of the localization of general education, which is worth using for reference in the universities of our country.This thesis consists five chapters altogether. Chapter One gives a definition to some of the basic concepts of this paper including general education, general education curriculum, curriculum provision and curriculum management. Chapter Two studies the history and summarizes the characteristics of the curriculum provision and management of general education in Japanese universities before the 1990s. Chapter Three uses concrete cases to investigate the current situation and summarize the characteristics of the curriculum provision and management of general education in Japanese universities after the 1990s. Chapter Four studies the management measures of the curriculum provision and management of general education in Japanese universities from the perspective of comparative analysis in the two periods of stage before and after the 1990s. Chapter Five summarizes the experience of the curriculum provision and management of general education in Japanese universities on the basis of what have been found in the preceding chapters and use the experience of Japan for reference to put forward some proposals in view of the current situation of the curriculum provision and management of general education in Chinese universities...