Development of secondary science curriculum for citizen who participate decision making in STS issues

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350255
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Kagawa University
• Principal Investigator: RYU JUMPEI 香川大学, 教育学部, 教授 (80452663)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OKAMOTO Masashi 高野山大学, 文学部, 教授 (70149558) ; TANIGUCHI Kazunari 京都教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (90319377)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 科学教育 / 中等科学カリキュラム / 科学と社会

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The reformed 2006 GCSE Science curriculum in Britain could be considered a bold attempt of secondary science curriculum to foster Scientific Literacy for future citizen. We examined the curriculum itself and “21st Science” course as its representative course, especially purposes, design, and materials of it in detail. We also studied what was social backgorund for the birth of the curriculum reform. And we followed the much heated controversy over them after the curriculum started, analyzed points of contention, and the considered what it implies as well.
We also developed several lesson plans and did trial lessons which treat STS issues with teachers including those on “Use of Nuclear power in Japan” and “prenatal diagnosis and genome editing”.

Free Research Field

科学教育