Effective Usage of Visual Media in Education

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350349
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Surugadai University
• Principal Investigator: Tsukamoto Mieko 駿河台大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (10275927)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 映像記憶 / 文化の影響 / 外国につながる子どもたち / 視聴調査 / 南米

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Visual media has been found to be an effective education tool.
This study reports on the results of an audio-visual survey conducted at Brazilian schools and a South American school in Japan, Japanese schools in Brazil and Peru, an American-British Style School in Peru, an elementary school in the USA, a high school in the USA, and a Japanese public school. This comparative research focused on the following three main areas; the relationship between culture and image, the cultural influences of place on children’s perceptions, and the influence of culture on children’s development. It was found that there was a slightly significant influence of culture on children’s image interpretation and that culture significantly affected children’s perceptions. However, cultural influences were not found to be significant at particular developmental stages.

Free Research Field

異文化間教育