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PART 2 Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 10 Information Oriented Society and the Role of Education
2 Development of Information Literacy


If people are to adapt themselves properly to an information oriented society, it is necessary to help them develop their information literacy, which means the ability to positively use information and information media, through formal and social education. At the same time, it is also necessary to develop an ethical code for the use of information, one which provides basic guidelines for leading the information oriented society in the proper direction.

Regarding the development of information literacy through elementary and secondary education, in the revised Course of Study for Lower Secondary Schools published in March 1989, the Ministry created a subject area called "Basics for Information" within industrial arts and homemaking. In addition, the Ministry introduced new subsidies for furnishing computers for educational purposes in 1990. Through various means, the Ministry has been striving to provide schools with computers and other information equipment and to expand the in-service training of teachers in the area of teaching information processing.

Institutions of higher education carry out specialized education and research regarding information science. In order to enrich educational programs for enabling all students to develop information literacy, the Ministry has been providing individual institutions with equipment for information processing related education.

In social education for adults and youth, courses on the use of personal computers and word processors and information processing are offered through extension courses at universities, upper secondary schools and special training schools, and through non-formal correspondence education. In recent years, there have also been an increasing number of computer courses offered by cultural centers in the private sector.


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