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2015/11/10

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Significance and issues of problem-solving industry-academia collaborative lectures through active learning

Takafumi Sakata

XNUMX. XNUMX.Lecture on basic skills for working adults as a problem-solving industry-academia collaborative lecture

In 2007, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established a mechanism for universities to develop and evaluate the "basic skills for working adults" that young people need when working in society. "Evaluation business" was recruited.Behind this was the aim of increasing the employment rate of new university graduates and stopping the increase in early turnover after joining the company (Chart 19).In this recruitment project, seven universities nationwide, including Osaka University, Miyagi University, and Tokyo Denki University, have been adopted as model lectures, and the lectures planned and planned by the author are also one of the lectures at Chukyo University, where I work, in the economic industry. It was adopted as the first model lecture of the ministry.

Chart 1: Changes in the employment rate of university students (created by the author from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology "School Basic Survey")

Chart 1: Changes in the employment rate of university students (created by the author from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology "School Basic Survey")

Here, the basic ability of working people is defined as "the basic ability necessary to work with diverse people in the workplace and the local community", and each has a lower ability element, "the ability to step forward". , "Thinking power" and "Team work power" are said to be the power consisting of three abilities (Chart 2) *.

Chart 2: Basic Ability of Working People (Source: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

Chart 2: Basic Ability of Working People (Source: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

* Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry "Committee of industry-academia experts (chaired by Yasuo Suwa, Professor of Hosei University Graduate School)"

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Takafumi Sakata

Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chukyo University, Ph.D. (Commerce), Chairman of the Active Learning Promotion Subcommittee, Chukyo University Education Promotion Center Committee.Part-time lecturer at Nagoya University, Nagoya City University, and Kinjo Gakuin University.His main specialty is marketing strategy theory, distribution theory, and product planning theory, and he has a good reputation for lectures and training that emphasizes "interesting", "easy to understand", and "usefulness".Recent publications include "Marketing Design from XNUMX" (co-edited by Sugakusha) and "Product Planning from XNUMX" (co-authored by Sugakusha).In recent years, he has expanded the field of activities, such as presiding over a cross-industry exchange study session that gathers young business people in Nagoya.For details, please visit the seminar website (http://www.sakataseminar.jp/).