A study on the thoughts and behavioral patterns of Japanese and American innovators who bore the science education reform in postwar Japan

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381199
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: Shiba Kazumi 広島大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (60145175)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 戦後理科教育改革 / 日米イノベータ / 岡現次郎 / V.T.エドミストン / K.M.ハークネス / 藤田穆 / 河野通匡 / 郡清

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to clarify the thoughts and behavioral patterns of Japanese and American innovators who bore the science education reform in postwar Japan.Through the documentary records, the following results were reached.In postwar Japan, course of study - science and science textbooks for elementary school were compiled by not only the officers of GHQ/SCAP/CIE in America, but also the officers of the Ministry of Education and many elementary school teachers who participated in Advisory Committee and Local District Committee on Science Curriculum and people involved in science education in Japan.The important figures who brought them together were Lapasnese innovators, Genjiro Oka (the Ministry of Education), Atsushi Fujita, Michimasa Kono, Kiyoshi Kori(Local District Committee on Science Curriculum), and American innovators, Vivian Todd Edmiston, Kennneth M. Harkness, Helen Heffernan and Edna V. Ambrose(GHQ/SCAP/CIE).

Free Research Field

理科教育学