Historical Investigations on 'Rika and Science' Education in Middle Meiji Era by Searching Students' Science Notebooks and Reconstruction of Those Valuable Essentials

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560072
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Niigata University
• Principal Investigator: KOBAYASHI Akizo 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 名誉教授 (10018822)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OKIHARU Fumiko 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 准教授 (60409050) ; ITOH Katumi 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (50242392) ; OKANO Tsutomu 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (30233357) ; YADA Toshifumi 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 教授 (40200521)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ITOH Toshiaki 愛知県立大学, 教育福祉学部, 教授 (40295572)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 明治中期科学教育 / 授業筆記研究 / 教案筆記研究 / 明治期科学教育の国際的連関 / 授業筆記の網羅的探索 / 能動的学習法の源流 / 現代的価値の再発見と再構成 / 小学校生徒用物理書の授業筆記

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We found varieties of students' notebooks on science in Middle Meiji Era (MME) in various regions of Japan. By investigating those valuable primary documents, "Buturi Hikki and Kagaku Hikki", we revealed new insights into Japanese science education and clarified real situations of those in MME. We disclosed how science and mathematics was taught by using these text books and experimental tools in those school of MME. Especially most important recent results are verifications of the real usage of the "Shogakko Seitoyo Butsurisho" Physics for Elementary School Students in English, by various note or memo written by pupils or teachers of primary school of Niigata, Saitama, Gunma in MME. Furthermore, we gained new understandings on how Japanese teachers developed their own styles of science teaching based on Japanese culture and how they cached up to the top level of the worlds in physics, chemistry, physiology, mathematics etc. by developing global connections and hands-on tools in MME.

Free Research Field

理科教育学