A study of self-awareness and mutual understanding between teachers and students

Popularization of higher education caused diversity of students and brings various issues inuniversity education. On the other hand, globalized society requires university to fosterhuman resources corresponding to 21st century. Education in university needs to changedrastically in response to the requirement. Thus, education in university has to teachstudents not only knowledge and skill but also ability and attitude to learn actively.Although it is important to foster the ability and teach the attitudes, it is more important toshare the aspiration with teachers and students. In order to share such feeling, a teacher anda student need to understand mutually.This paper investigated the mutual understanding among students and teachers inNagasaki University. The result revealed the issues describing below.1) There exists a gap of mutual understanding between teachers and students.2) These gaps have not changed for ten years.These result suggested that introduction of FD and student evaluation in university reformdid not bring any advantage about mutual understanding between teachers and students.The further research should be carried out to encourage the mutual understanding