Research on possibilities of school reform by collaborations between high schools and communities business

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A purpose of this research studies what kinds of impact the collaborations between schools and communities give senior high school educational reform.We carried out investigation about the collaborations between schools and communities in Japan and America.Abstracts of research are as follows. 1) What kind of role does experience learning play in senior high school educational reform? We paid our attention to practice of School-to-Work in American high schools. We paid our attention to SOUGOUGAKKA high schools (comprehensive high school with credit system) in Japan. We understood that community-based learning was useful for academic learning not only was useful for future career choice for students in both country. However, experience learning of a Japanese senior high school is short between two days or three days. The American high school students experienced the structured programs that labor of work place could seem to understand. 2) We investigated how the partnerships between schools and business were made. In America, the partnership was talked with and was contracted for both profits. In Japan, the school demanded cooperation from a company one-sidedly. 3) We did investigation about an ideal method of articulation and collaboration between things of a senior high school and a university.It is to examine ideal methods of articulation and collaboration with high schools and universities from points of view of ideal method of post secandary education. In United States, there were practices of collaboration of high schools and unversities more than 12000 cases, and the contents were various, too.