The science education of the Gunma normal school based on a handmade science experiment instrument suggests it for today's education

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25282043
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Saitama Medical University
• Principal Investigator: Akabane Akira 埼玉医科大学, 医学部, 非常勤講師 (40049846)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 所澤 潤 東京未来大学, こども心理学部, 教授 (00235722) ; 玉置 豊美 株式会社数理設計研究所, 核物性研究室, 主任研究員 (50373551) ; 高橋 浩 群馬大学, 大学院理工学府, 教授 (80236314)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 理科児童実験の奨励 / 大正期の理科教育 / 理科児童実験 / 第三次小学校令中改正 / 尋常小学校義務教育６年制 / 尋常小理科5,6年必修 / 師範学校附属小学校 / 児童実験観察要目

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We studied science education’s historical development in Gunma Prefecture during the Meiji/Taisho eras through historical documents such as textbooks, magazines published by a local education society, and Gunma Normal School’s archives. We found the following historical facts. When a training class for primary school teachers was held at Takasaki town in Gunma Prefecture in 1884, a Gunma Normal School teacher lectured how to make simple experimental instruments from daily-life goods. In the class, the primary school teachers themselves actually made the simple instruments. In the early Taisho era, many prefectures published description lists of physics and chemistry experiments for pupils or guidebooks for pupils’ experiments. As a result of that, the “second boom” of pupils’ science experiment book publication seems to have occurred. In particular, we examined a pupils’ physics and chemistry experiment guidebook written by a Gunma Normal School teacher.

Free Research Field

物理教育 物理学史　科学教育史