Diagnosis the individual capabilities of cross-boundary explanation and develop supporting programs to foster the capabilities

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K04076
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Maruno Syunichi 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院, その他 (30101009)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 小田部 貴子 九州産業大学, 基礎教育センター, 講師 (80567389) ; 野村 亮太 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 特任助教 (70546415)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 越境的説明力 / 創造的対話 / 差異への敏感さ / 省察的思考

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we focused on “capabilities of cross-boundary explanation” which play the critical roles in the process of problem finding and problem solving. Especially, this capability is important for the creative dialogues among various people who have the different way of viewing and thinking. Our aims were to diagnosis the individual capabilities of cross-boundary explanation and then develop supporting programs to foster the capabilities.
The results of this research demonstrated as follows: (1) In the situations where cross-boundary explanation is offered, sensitivity is necessary for people to perceive the gaps between their own ideas and other persons’ ideas and (2) the capability of cross-boundary explanation tend to emerge during meaning-creating contexts. Based on these findings, we constructed a measurement tool to diagnosis individual’s capability of cross-boundary explanation and provided a proposal to foster these capabilities.

Free Research Field

教授過程心理学　認知発達心理学