Interdisciplinary comparative study on higher education reform in Japan and France

本文围绕高等教育的“大众化”与“追求卓越”的二分法的解决、高等教育的“自由化”政策的影响、文科与通识教育的意义等三个主题，对日本与法国进行了比较研究。我们发现，中美两国高等教育改革的根本性和首要性问题，即高等教育改革的目标是建设什么样的社会，都没有得到充分的讨论和思考。我们把这个基本问题作为我们研究的共同基础，探讨了实际的研究主题。

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.