Interdisciplinary comparative study on higher education reform in Japan and France

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We have been doing comparative research between Japan and France on three main themes which we have posed as our point of study: 1)resolution of dichotomy between "tendency to mass" and "pursuit of excellence" of higher education, 2)impacts of the "liberalization" policy of higher education, 3)significance of liberal arts and general education. We have found that the essential and principal questions on the higher education reform -- what kind of higher education, or more generally, what kind of society is aimed for by the reform -- have not been discussed and reflected enough in both countries. We have inquired into actual research themes by setting this fundamental problem as the common basis for our study.