Clarification of Curator's Competencies of Educational Activities

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K20239
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: :Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Otsuma Women's University
• Principal Investigator: TAKAHASHI Mai 大妻女子大学, 人間生活文化研究所, 助手 (50907128)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-08-30 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 博物館教育 / 学芸員 / 市民性教育 / 生涯学習 / ESD（持続可能な開発のための教育）

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to clarify the qualities and abilities related to educational dissemination activities that should be cultivated in the curator training course in Japan. In order to create question items for conducting a semi-structured interview survey targeting curators, items were extracted using syllabuses published by 292 universities that have established museum curator training courses as data sources. and quantified. 20 items were extracted from the syllabus and made into a data matrix. During the two years, I was able to create a database by extracting items from the syllabuses of 105 universities that have curator training courses.

Free Research Field

市民教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は教育普及活動に着目し、学芸員の資質・能力を行動特性と捉えて計量的に明らかにするが、これに類する研究は他にない。さらに「教育普及活動」業務遂行に必要とされる資質・能力が詳細に示されることから、学習目標を立て易く、学芸員養成課程でも活用できる。