Fig. 10 What is the educational meaning of Celestial Navigation?
Fig. 11 What do you think about an IBS or an INS?
to educate in limited hours of teaching becomes a subject to discussion
for the faculty. To be helpful to us in discussing what a future curriculum should be on
our academy, the questionnaire survey to graduates of the academy was done.
As examples of the results of this survey were shown in Fig. 10 and
Fig.11. About the relation between new technology and classical subjects, like a celestial
navigation as a typical subject, a great number of respondents regard both as important.
It seems to conflict each other, but the opinion that the fundamental education is
necessary and sufficient about a celestial navigation was gotten too. So, we have to
discuss and start to reform our curriculum to meet the demands of the times as the
administrative organ.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to acknowledge for valuable discussions and advice with Prof.
K.Hara and Prof. K.Inoue of Kobe University of Mercantile Marine and also thank the stuffs
of Maritime Safety Academy and graduates for their cooperation in the questionnaire
survey.
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(1) A.Nagasawa : Marine Traffic Simulation Including Collision
Avoidance, Navigation, The Japan Institute of Navigation, June, 1984.
(2) A.Nagasawa, K.Hara and K.Inoue : The Subjective Difficulties of the
Situation of Collision Avoidance - I, The Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation, Sep.,
1988.
(3) A.Nagasawa, K. Hara, K.Inoue and K.Kose The Subjective Difficulties
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