An Articulation between Civics Education and Ethical Studies : In Consideration of Welfare Education and Human Rights Education

日本教育体制的危机和改革长期以来一直是人们热议的话题。那么在很多热议的问题当中，对大学学者来说最相关的就是中等教育和高等教育的((衔接))问题。正是中央教育委员会的报告《关于改善中小学教育和高等教育之间的衔接》(1999年12月16日)引起了社会对这一问题的关注。为了配合这一运动，我在2001年和2002年的日本伦理学会年会上主持了关于高中公民教育和伦理研究((联合))的系列研讨会。这项研究的目的是从((公民教育和伦理研究))的角度考察学术研究与学校教育相结合的各种尝试，并找出这两项活动之间的适当合作关系。这个项目刚开始时，我从艺术与文学研究生院转到了教育研究生院。因此，我利用我的新职位，尽可能地与相关领域的学者进行交流。最重要的研究成果是我撰写的高中公民教科书《新宪法》(Kyoiku-Shuppan2006)，以及我与六位值得信赖的专家共同编辑的综合性伦理词典《GendairinRIGAKUJITEN》(Koubun-Dou，2006)。后者针对的是从事中小学教育的教师。

The crisis and reform of the Japanese education system have been talked about loudly for a long time. Then, among a lot of hotly debated issues, the most relevant one to university scholars is the ((articulation )) between the secondary education and the higher education. It is Central Education Council report "On the improvement of articulation between the primary-secondary education and the higher education"' (December 16, 1999) that have roused social concern for this problem To work with this movement, I conducted the serial workshop on the ((joints)) between high school civics education and ethical studies at the annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Ethics in 2001 and 2002. The aim of this research is to investigate the various attempts to incorporate academic researches with school education from the viewpoint of the ((articulation between civics education and ethical studies)) and to find out the appropriately collaborative relationship between these two activities.Just when this project started, I moved from the graduate school of arts and letters to the graduate school of education. So I have taken advantages of my new post and tried to exchange with the scholars of related fields as much as I could. The most significant research results are the high school civics textbook SHIN GENDAISHAKAI (Kyoiku-Shuppan, 2006), the part of which I wrote, and the comprehensive dictionary on ethics GENDAIRINRIGAKUJITEN (Koubun-Dou, 2006) which I edited jointly with six trustworthy experts. The latter targets the teachers engaged in the primary and secondary education.