International Comparison of STS Researches

通过研究，我们设计了一系列特别适合理科研究生的STS讲座。讲座实际上是作为研究生院的专题讲座，名为“科学的社会素养”，由一周的强化课程组成，为期三年。几个学术团体对该试验进行了讨论和审查，并增加了许多想法。在此基础上，提出了高校STS教育体系。这是适合大学的，但也可以被视为科学研究生课程的典范。这样，我们就可以完成本研究最重要的目标。此外，我们的建议被纳入高等研究学院新设的“生物系统进化研究”系的设计中，该系将于2007年开始设立。在我们的版本中，STS被视为课程中不可或缺的组成部分。通过对欧洲和美洲STS研究的观察得出的另一个重要结论是，STS研究的基础设施如历史文献档案、口述历史和与科学相关的电影是必要的。这些档案是研究的基础，而日本没有。在这一观察的引导下，(1)在隼山高等研究中心对校际科研院所的科学文化档案系统进行了新的研究；(2)在科研资助项目“大科学口述史共享档案建设”的基础上获立项。这些新项目将扩大目前研究取得的成果。

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of STS researches in Europe and Americas was the necessity of the infrastructures for STS studies such as archives of historical documents, oral histories and films related to the science.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.