The Survey Educational Contents and Methods on Women's Studies in Adult Education

这项研究是根据向参加全国妇女教育中心（NWEC）和其他地方妇女教育机构、妇女中心和终身教育机构举办的妇女研究课程的学员发放的问卷进行的。它揭示了参与的目标，妇女课程的内容和方法，学习中的问题，性别角色的观点，以及关于男女平等地位的观点。1994年8月至1995年1月，在参加各种妇女课程的学员中发放了956份问卷，其中604份（63%）（545名妇女和56名男子）被收回。结果如下：（1）关于“男人应该出去工作，女人应该呆在家里”的观念，在一次关于男女平等的民意调查中，23%的受访者对此作出了肯定的回答， 关于我们 在1992年总理办公室调查的妇女中，只有1%的人作了肯定的回答。Thio指出，参与者没有性别角色的陈规定型观念。我们的调查还显示，参加全国妇女教育中心举办的课程的人与其他机构的人在性别角色的看法上存在差异，而且按性别、职业和年龄也存在差异。(2)关于妇女学学习中存在的问题，最受欢迎的两个回答是：“内容太广泛，没有重点“和“解决妇女问题的方法不明确”。“（3）在被调查者本人期望学习的内容方面，不同设施、性别、职业和年龄的被调查者存在差异。“性、性别区别和性别角色”、“家庭和家庭”、“劳动和职业”、“社会活动”、“教育和学习”、“政治和政策”和“提高男子的性别角色意识”被列为所有类别的理想职业。(4)通过对被调查者的性别角色观、期望学习的内容和方法的分类分析，我们成功地获得了确定成人教育中最适合妇女研究的学科的基础数据，以及与成年男女不同生活方式和人生阶段相对应的具体内容。少

This research was based on a questionnaire given to participants in courses on women's studies held by the National Women's Education Center (NWEC) and other local women's education facilities, women's centers, and life-long education facilities. It revealed objectives of participation, cotents and methods expected of women's courses, problems in learning, and views of gender-role, and views regarding equal status for men and women. The answers were correlated by sex, age and occupation, and the contents and methods applied to women's studies in the field of abult education were examined.Of the 956 questionnaires distributed between August 1994 and January 1995 among the participants in the various women's courses, 604 (63%) (545 women and 56 men) were comoleted and returned. The following are the results :(1) Regarding the notion "men should go out to work, and women stay at home", to which 23% of the respondents answered positively in a Public Opinion Poll on the Equality for Men and … More Women couducted by the Primo Minister's Office in 1992, only 1% replied affirmatively in this study. Thio indicates that the partivipants were free from the idea of stereotyped gender role. Our survey also showed differences in the views of gender-role between participants to the courses held by NWEC and those by other facilities, and by sex, occupation and age.(2) Concerning problems in learning women's studies, the two preferred replies were : "the contents are too extensive to be focussed on, " and "methods for solving women's issues are not clear."(3) Regarding the contents that participants themselves expected to study, differences existed among the respondents according to facility, sex, occupation aand age. "Sex, sex distinction and gender-roles" , "home and family" , "labor and occupations" , "social activities" , "education and learning" , "politics and policcies" and "raising the consciousness of gender-role among men" were listed as desirable by all categories.(4) By analyzing by category of respondents, their views of gender-role and the expected contents and methods of study, we successfully gainedfundamental data for determining the most appropriate subjects for women's Studies in abult education and specific contents corresponding to the various lifestyles and stages of life of adult men and women. Less