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EFFECTS OF TRADITIONAL COSMOLOGY ON SCIENCE EDUCATION

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08044003
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
SectionJoint Research
Research InstitutionIBARAKI UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

OGAWA Masakata  IBARAKI UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF EDUCATION,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 教育学部, 助教授 (80143139)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) JEGEDE Olugbemiro  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND,DISTANCE EDUCATION CENTRE,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 遠隔教育センター, 準教授
AIKENHEAD Glen S  UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCEHWAN,COLLEGE OF EDUCATION,PROFESSOR, 教育学部, 教授
COBERN William W  WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY,COLLEGE EDUCATION,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 教育学部, 準教授
OTSUJI Hisashi  IBARAKI UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF EDUCATION,LECTURER, 教育学部, 講師 (20272099)
KAWASAKI Ken  KOCHI UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF EDUCATION,PROFESSOR, 教育学部, 教授 (00116451)
HAIDAR Abdul  アラブ首長国連邦大学, 教育学部, 準教授
TOBIN Kennet  フロリダ州立大学, 教育学部, 教授
OGUNNIYI Mes  西ケープ大学, 科学数学教育学部, 教授
Project Period (FY) 1996
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Keywordstraditional cosmology / scientific cosmology / science education / foreign culture / multicultural society / indigenous science / western science
Research Abstract

When we consider rationale of science education in the near-future, an important issue is that how the relation of scientific cosmology, which is constructed by the scientific community, and traditional cosmology, which is held by lay people in their lifeworld, should be. The purpose of the project is to compare how the conflict of the two cosmologies appears and how it be dealt with in the science education programs for Japanese, African, Middle Eastern, and First Nation's people, who received western modern science as a foreign culture, and come to mutual understanding of the situation. Through the process, the ultimate goal of the project is to establish a new rationale of science education, which is fit to the coming multiculturally co-existent society. The project aimed at clarifying how traditional cosmology of a certain people affects the enterprise called "Science Education" in the society concerned. For that purpose, we examined, at first, several fundamental issues, definitions of science, relationship between indigenous science and western science, natural philosophy and science, worldview, traditional cosmology and rationality, structural linguistics, negativity, etc. Then, the discussion proceeded to the issues relevant to teaching and learning science, that is, collateral learning, border-crossing, co-participation, symbolic violence, cultural fit and interaction, Fatima's rule, etc. The process was performed firstly by brainstorming among the members for about 3 months through the Listserve , TRACOS-L,then by one week meeting at Mito in September 23-27,1996, which is followed the synthesis process, again by the discussion through the Listserve. One of the results of synthesis was compiled by Jegede, Aikenhead, and Cobern as the Mito Document on Research Agenda under the title, "Cultural Studies in Science Education. "

Report

(2 results)
  • 1996 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All Other

All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] Masakata Ogawa: "Toward an Epic Description of Science Education : Cultural History of Science Education in Japan" William Cobern (ed:) Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education : An International Dialogue・Kluwer Acadenic.Dordrecht,The Netherlands. 1vol.(1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1996 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] William Cobern: "Socjo-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education : An International Dialogue" Kluwer Academic,Dordrecht,The Netherlands, (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1996 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masakata Ogawa: "Toward an Epic Description of Science Education : Cultural History of Science Education in Japan." William Cobern (ed.) Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education : An international Dialogue. Kluwer Academic, Dorfrecht, The Nethrelands.(In Press.).

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1996 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Willam Cobern (ed.): Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education : An international Dialogue(In press.). Kluwer Academic, Dorfrecht, The Nethrelands.,

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1996 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Masakata Ogawa: "Toward an Epic Description of Science Education : Cultural History of Scinec Education in Japan" William Cobern (ed.) Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education : An International Dialogue. Kluwer Academic,Dordrecht,The Nelherlands. 1Vol.(未定). (1997)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] William Cobern: "Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Science Education : An International Dialogue" Kluwer Academic,Dordrecht,The Netherlands (未定), (1997)

    • Related Report
      1996 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1996-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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