A psychological study on learning in subject areas based on variability of children's thinking

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380871
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Fujimura Nobuyuki 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 教授 (20270861)
• Research Collaborator: IMAMURA Atsushi 名古屋大学, 教育学部附属中・高等学校, 教諭
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 教育系心理学 / 概念的理解 / 思考 / 多様性 / 非定型問題 / 探究 / 協同過程 / 問題解決

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined variabilities of children's thinking by means of administering verbal explanation tasks to elementary, junior-high, and senior-high school students, as well as the effects of classroom learning based on children's varied ideas on their individual conceptual understanding by psychological analyses of their oral and written expressions. A series of psychological studies revealed that children's problem solving strategies or explanation types on non-routine problems varied within each grade according to their types of connecting various types of knowledge, and that collaborative inquiry learning which activates and utilizes children's various ideas contributed to the improvement of their individual conceptual understanding in various subject areas at each stage of school education.

Free Research Field

教育心理学