How to Involve Science and Technology Education in Lifelong Education Sytem?

在技术化的日本社会，国民面临着各种与科技相关的问题(STS问题)，如环境问题和生物医学问题。如何培养STS素养才能在社会中积极生活？本研究从科学技术教育的角度对日本的终身教育体系进行了精准的考察。结果表明，在日本的终身教育体系中，国民只被期望对不断变化的社会做出被动的反应，而不期望成为改变社会的企业的积极贡献者。另一个发现是，在终身教育计划中，可以作为科技教育的规划者、协调者、管理者、培训者和促进者的人力资源严重缺失。认识到开发新型工作人员发展方案的迫切需要。

In the technologicalized society Japan, citizens are facing various kinds of science-technology related issues (STS issues) like environmental and biomedical issues. How can we cultivate STS literacy to live actively in the society? This study examined precisely the lifelong education system of Japan from the viewpoint of science and technology education. The result indicates that the citizens are only expected to be responded passively to the changing society, never expected to become active contributors toward enterprises of changing society in the Japanese lifelong education system. Another finding is that there is serious defict of human resources who can serve as planners, coordinators, managers, trainers and facilitators of science and technology education in lifelong education scheme. Emergent need to develop new types of staff development programs is recognised.