Students of high schools with forestry majors and educational problems [in Japan]
2006
Hayajiri, M.(Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan)) | Hayashi, D.
High schools with forestry majors are currently reorganizing their departments. To discuss the future of their schools, the trends of careers after graduation, students' awareness about school life and the ways companies handle activities must be clarified. This paper reviews the results a survey of three such schools, seeking to understand the trends of career possibilities after graduation and use the questionnaire to grasp students' awareness about school life. We also interviewed forest owners' cooperatives to understand the connection between school education and the hands-on training of companies. Several issues were discovered. First, high schools with forestry majors seem to not be nurturing forestry mid-level technicians. Students who go on to special training schools are on the increase. Second, students who find jobs related to the forestry industry tend to feel the need to study further. The rest tend not to have such a motivation. Third, their school education is linked with the companies' hands-on training to a certain degree. Forest owners' cooperatives set a high valuation for graduates from these schools. It was thus found that it can be difficult for high schools with forestry majors to establish educational policies, because students experience complicated situations regarding their career of choice after graduation as well as their motivation to study more. Schools are now confronted with some difficult problems that include both responding to dynamic needs, as well as revising vocational education.
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