組織的知識創造としてのリベラルアーツ教育 : 知識経営の視点から

Liberal Arts Education as Organizational Knowledge Creation : From the perspective of Knowledge Management

Yokohara Tomoyuki

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第三部, 教育人間科学関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 3, Education and human science

The purpose of this study is to identify the role of the liberal arts education as organizational knowledge creation in the knowledge-based society from the perspective of knowledge management. Firstly, this paper discusses the distinguished characteristics of the knowledge-based society. It also touches on what is demanded for the social structure and social management in the knowledge-based society in which knowledge is considered as a higher level concept than data and information. Secondly, the paper makes an analysis of the issue concerning the liberal arts education in Japan. By making a brief review of the history of the Japanese liberal arts education, the paper discusses an increased emphasis on the importance of the liberal arts in Japan in recent years. Thirdly, the paper examines the liberal arts education as organizational knowledge creation. Moreover, it explains the liberal arts education by using the SECI Model (the process model of organizational knowledge creation) which is regarded as a foundational model of knowledge management. The SECI Model has four modes. They include Socialization, Externalization, Combination, and Internalization. The paper identifies the characteristics of these four modes in light of the content of liberal arts education. Fourthly, the paper discusses what is required for university and college students, including the issue concerning the phronesis and the phronetic leadership, in the knowledge-based society. Furthermore, the paper argues the reason why the phronesis and the phronetic leadership are needed in the knowledge-based society. By quoting P.F.Drucker's word, “Management is what tradition used to call a liberal art", the paper explores the interrelationship between the phronesis, the liberal art, and the liberal arts education.

knowledge-based society

liberal arts education

knowledge worker

organizational knowledge creation

phronesis

知識基盤社会

リベラルアーツ教育

ナレッジ・ワーカー

組織的知識創造

賢慮(フロネシス)

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5562

[NCID] AA11625039