International Comparison of STS Researches

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Through the research, we have designed a series of lectures of STS particularly suited to the graduate students of sciences. The lectures were actually given as special lectures of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies named "Social Literacy of the Science", composed of one week intensive course for three years. The trial was discussed and examined by several academic communities and many ideas were added. Based on the experience, we could propose the system for the education of STS in the university. This is suited to the university but can also be regarded as the model for graduate courses in sciences. Thus, we could accomplished the most important goal of the research.In addition, our proposal was included in the design of the new department "Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems" in the school of advanced studies, which will start in 2007. STS in our version was treated as indispensable ingredient of the course.Another important conclusion through the observation of STS researches in Europe and Americas was the necessity of the infrastructures for STS studies such as archives of historical documents, oral histories and films related to the science. The archives are the base of the research and Japan does not have it. Lead by this observation, (1) new research project was made in Hayama Center for Advanced Studies for the system of scientific and cultural archives on the inter-university-research institutes; (2) another research project was approved based on the grant-in-Aid for scientific research "Construction of Shared Archives for the Oral History of Big Sciences". The achievements obtained in the present research will be expanded by these new projects.