Factors promoting and hindering teacher reflection

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K04560
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Fukuoka University of Education
• Principal Investigator: Tsuneka Wakaki 福岡教育大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 教授 (90454579)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: リフレクション / 教師教育 / 要因の解明

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Reflective competence is essential for being a 'teacher who keeps learning'. However, as basic research to cultivate the ability to reflect, the clarification of the factors that promote and inhibit reflection is not sufficient. Therefore, we worked on clarifying the factors that promote and inhibit reflection. The research focused on analysing the descriptions of graduate students in the teaching profession, but it was also possible to carry out a site visit to teacher education in the Netherlands in March 2023, which had been extended by the Corona Disaster. As a result of this research, five facilitating factors and eight inhibiting factors were derived. It is particularly significant that we were able to identify situations in which reflection occurred and feelings of avoidance of reflection based on the analysis of graduate students' reports. In addition to the above, we also considered what is necessary to promote reflection and were able to identify five points.

Free Research Field

教師教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

省察，リフレクションの研究では，省察力は何か，どう育てるのかという視点からの追究は多い。しかしその前に，省察の促進・阻害要因の解明についても意識を向ける必要がある。また，省察の内実を自己探究とした場合，自己否定につながるのではないかという恐れを抱く教員も存在する。省察を行うことを前提ではなく，それが必要ではあるが，そこに至れない理由や，継続できない理由を解明しなければならない。
そうした現状に対し，本研究の成果は，促進・阻害の状況をイメージ化することができ，省察発生の場面，省察を忌避する感情を捉えることもできた。本研究の成果は，省察，リフレクションに対する基礎的研究として学術的意義がある。