Developing the effective support methods through exploring the meaning making process in Art Museum

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13171
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: TAKAHASHI Mitsuru 東北大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 (70171527)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 美術館教育 / 意味構成 / 来館者 / 構成主義 / 学習プロセス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to examine how museum visitors in general respond to the exhibits they saw, and how survivors of the Great East Japan earthquake in particular constructed meaning when visiting museums, as well as to set forth the possibilities inherent to museum education. All of the visitors were survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake, although the degree to which they were impacted by the disaster varied.
The survey results showed that while these museum visitors gathered information from curators and captions and adhered to interpretive framework, they synthesized this information with their own impressions of the exhibited items, constructing unique understandings of the exhibit and their own museum experiences. Furthermore, by communicating a “paean to life,” the Jakuchu exhibit affected the visitors on an emotional level and served to support their recovery from the disaster.

Free Research Field

教育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では、学習のプロセスのミクロな分析手法を使いつつ、1）来館者たちが，博物館において、どのように学ぶのか。何を学ぶのか。2）その博物館経験が、その後の来館者の学習行動にどのような影響をもつのか、という諸点を明らかにしてきた。本研究は、社会学的なミクロな学習過程の分析をもとに、申請者がこれまで検討してきた構成主義的学習論の知見とも総合しつつ、新しい博物館教育論を提示した。ここで得られた知見は、ノンフォーマルな学び、 インフォーマルな学びのプロセスと意義を明らかにする、より大きな教育研究の課題に寄与するところも大きい。