<高等教育の動向> 現代学生のこころの育ちと高等教育に求められるこれからの学生支援

Abstract

This paper aims to consider various methods of student support needed in Japan's higher education system. First surveyed is the importance placed on student support in the history of higher education in Japan after World War II. Next, issues of psychological growth and some characteristic problems in current students are analyzed from the viewpoint of the student counselor. This paper then shows how a system for supporting student's lives has been developed at Konan University, and how group programs and workshop-type classes are being offered by student counselors to cope with these characteristic problems. Finally, the significance of these actions as a means of supporting students' psychological growth is discussed.