日本大学的通识教育改革及其启示

Reform of General Education at Japanese Universities and Its Enlightenment

通识教育是现代高等教育人才培养多元化和提高大学生创新能力的重要环节。以日本大学教养部为载体的日本通识教育,在20世纪90年代发生了重大改革,从而引起了世界范围内对通识教育的普遍关注,并产生了巨大学术效应。我国高校实施通识教育应确立现代意义上的通识教育理念;改革现行学科设置,构建通识课程体系与教育模式,其途径是把通识教育与专业教育融合,实现在课程设计上的统一和渗透。

General education is an important link in the efforts to diversify the channels for cultivating students and improve students＇ ability to create. With the cultivation departments of Japanese universities as the carrier, General education was fundamentally reformed in Japan in the 90s of the 20th century, which attracted the whole world＇s concern with General education and caused great academic effects. In China. General education should be implemented at universities and colleges with the guidance of modern ideas and current disciplinary system must be reformed for establishing specific curriculum system and teaching mode for General education by means of integrating General education with specialized education and realizing the unification and mutual infiltration of their curriculum development modes.