@article{oai:jissen.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001351,
 author = {安齋, 徹},
 journal = {下田歌子研究所年報 女性と文化, Women and Culture - The Annual Bulletin of the Shimoda Utako Institute},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Recently there has been a strong emphasis regarding the empowerment of women in Japan as suggested by Ms. Utako Shimoda, a founder of Jissen Women’s University. With this in mind, not only the society and the enterprises, but also the universities, especially women’s universities, are expected to play a major role. This article suggests that there is great potential for women’s universities to empower women through seminars. Investigating seminars can also provide valuable information to recognize the actual activities of seminars throughout Japan.
  The students of a certain seminar at G Women’s University which has stated aims of being the best seminar in Japan engaged actively in five categorized projects: (1) Study Project, (2) Research Project, (3) Real Project, (4) Challenge Project and (5) Event Project. The students were obliged to carry out the missions which stretch students’ capacity in multiple simultaneous manner. The seminar has been operated with careful attention. For example, frequent discussion in pairs is the basic style of the seminar, dual leaders are assigned at random to avoid fixed roles in the seminar and individual interviews are held monthly. The students showed higher scores on a questionnaire compared with students throughout Japan regarding seminar-satisfaction and maturity realization.　Higher scores were also observed for the following: flexibility, listening skills, situation judgment, independence, stress-control, discipline, curiosity, innovative minds, challenging attitude, trust for others, expectations for the future, career mindedness and competitive consciousness. The results suggest that a women’s university could play an integral and unshakable role in development of women, which enterprises have come to expect from the university education.
  Although there is a push at university to develop strong intentions in women to continue working in their job despite changes in their personal lives, the strength of a university’s educational function of human resource development is more essential. Active learning, which the Central Council for Education recommends, is easy to apply in seminars. We should pay more attention to the potential of seminars, and women’s universities should play the lead role to empower students through seminars.},
 pages = {107--127},
 title = {女性の活躍推進に向けた大学教育の挑戦　女子大学におけるゼミナールを通じた人材育成の試み},
 volume = {1},
 year = {2015}
}