The Funcamental Research on Curriculum and Instruction of Professional School in the Unite States

本研究的目的是调查美国职业学校引进的课程和教学。面对终身学习社会的到来，产业结构转型的需要，以及在全球化运动中竞争的需要，日本应该建立能够为在职人士和其他人提供专业教育的高等教育机构。然而，传统的在职专业研究生课程与研究型研究生课程并没有明确的区分。1997年，我对美国、佩珀丁大学管理学院、加州大学洛杉矶分校教育学院等职业学校进行了调查研究，通过这些调查，美国职业学校的课程结构有效地在集约期提供专业知识和技能。此外，这些专业学校的指导基于成人发展理论和成人教育技术。这些学校的教师不仅以研究为导向，而且以教学为导向。虽然日本和美国的招生制度和晋升制度有很大不同，但美国职业学校引入的课程和指导被认为是未来日本为在职专业人员开设的研究生课程和教学。

The purpose of the research is to investigate the curriculum and instruction introduced in American Professional School. Facing with the arrival of lifelong learning society, the need to transform industrial structure, to compete in the globalization movement, Japan should establish the higher education institutions which are able to offer professional education for working professionals and others. However, conventional graduate programs for working professionals are not clearly divided from the research-oriented graduaate programs. In 1997, I did the survey research for professional schools in the United Stetes, School of Management of Pepperdine University, School of Education, UCLA and others.Through these surveys, the currisulum in American professional school is effectively structured to offer professional knowledge and skills in intensive periods. Also, instructions taken in these professional schools are based on adult development theories and adult education techniques. The faculties in these schools are not only research oriented but also teaching oriented. Many faculties specified in professional education have practical background and in fact some of them are engaged in consultant business to industrial world.Although recruiting system and promotion system is quite different between Japan and United States, those curriculum and instruction introduced in American professional schools are considered to introduce in future Japanese graduate programs for working professionals.