International collaborative research on the mutual development of Japanese-style education and IB education

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K18624
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 9:Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Tokoha University
• Principal Investigator: KUBOTA SHINJI 常葉大学, 教育学部, 教授 (80170033)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 川口 純 筑波大学, 人間系, 准教授 (90733329)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-06-29 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: IB教育の創造 / 自省する教員 / 国内大学入試 / 輻輳性 / 弁証法的発展

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have been conducting international collaborative research with a focus on the mutual development of Japanese-style education and IB education. The research has been conducted with a focus on how Japanese schools should "accept" IB education, an international educational program, based on the past knowledge and experience of Japanese education, and critically, rather than simply introducing the program without criticism. In collaboration with the IB project of the Ministry of Education, this was a large-scale study conducted with the participation of a total of 70 teachers from 16 IB schools in Japan. The research was conducted using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research. As a quantitative survey, a questionnaire was administered to IBDP students in order to understand changes over a three-year period. Next, based on the results of the questionnaire, interviews with teachers were conducted.

Free Research Field

比較教育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

具体的な研究成果としては、IB教育と日本の教育の教授法に関する特徴を相対的に明らかにしただけでなく、教員が多種多様な教授法や探究型学習へのアプローチ法をいかに習得、確立していくのか、その過程を明らかにした。また、IB授業の実践における困難や課題を教員自身がメタ認知する機会も提供することとなった。
この様に本科研の実績としては学術的に示唆に富む結果が得られただけでなく、実践的にも時機を得た非常に有意義な研究成果を得ることが出来た。また、本科研で構築された授業研究の教科グループは今後も継続的に実施されることになり、自立的な持続発展性が高い研究となった。