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

日本教育制度的危机和改革一直是人们津津乐道的话题。那么在众多的热点问题当中呢，跟大学学者最相关的就是中等教育跟高等教育之间的（（衔接））。这是中央教育理事会的报告“关于改善中小学教育与高等教育之间的衔接”（1999年12月16日）引起社会对这一问题的关注。我主持了这个（（关节））的系列研讨会，在2001年和2002年的日本伦理学会年会上，本研究的目的是从公民教育与伦理学的衔接的角度，探讨学术研究与学校教育相结合的各种尝试，以及两者之间的适当合作关系。本研究刚开始的时候，我从文学艺术研究所转到了教育研究所。因此，我利用新的岗位，尽可能多地与相关领域的学者交流。最重要的研究成果是我撰写的高中公民学教科书《SHIN GENDAISHAKAI》（Kyoiku-Shuppan，2006）和我与六位值得信赖的专家共同编辑的道德综合词典GENDAIRINRIGAKUJIDEN（Koubun-Dou，2006）。后者的对象是从事初等和中等教育的教师。

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.