A study on Instructional Method of Reading-Based Art Appreciation Which Improves an Idea, Western Understanding through Art

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K04679
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Shinshu University
• Principal Investigator: OKADA Masashi 信州大学, 学術研究院教育学系, 教授 (30194369)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 鑑賞教育 / 読解ベース型鑑賞指導メソッド / 読解的鑑賞 / 美術を通した国際理解 / 西洋絵画鑑賞 / 西洋理解 / 東西比較 / 鑑賞題材

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I focused on ‘international understanding through art’ described in Section 6 Art in “The Course of Study for Lower Secondary School” announced in 2008 and 2019. From this idea, I made ‘instructional method of reading-based art appreciation’ my subject and positioned junior high school students in Japan as primary objects to learn the West by this method. Including East-West comparison, in total three years, I considered this method theoretically and refined it. Additionally, I organized teaching materials by applying this method to them. I showed my research results by three papers, five oral presentations and one examination report and published eight teaching materials with learning models. To recognize Western paintings selected carefully as precisely as possible and to improve what to teach, I observed and studied real artworks at museums or churches in Europe and many relative exhibitions in Japan.

Free Research Field

鑑賞教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の意義は，大量の情報が飛び交い，人的交流も盛んなグローバル化の中で現在求められる，読解力・言語活用能力・発想力・創造性・問題解決能力等を育む指導メソッドを鑑賞教育領域から提起することにある。と同時に，このグローバル化ゆえに文化の差異が強調される中，本研究では西洋を依然異質な文化圏と捉え，その西洋を理解するのに有効な媒体として絵を，即ち，暮らし振り，世界観，信仰姿勢，政治情勢，経済状態，文化的伝統等の情報が凝縮した対象として西洋絵画を選択した。その絵を読み解く読解ベース型鑑賞指導メソッドを，理論研究と題材開発とをリンクして示し，教育現場で活用可能な計8題材を示せた意義は大きいと自認する。