Research to improve methods and techniques of instruction and evaluation of social studies that refer to attitude to knowledge

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590247
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: National Institute for Educational Policy Research
• Principal Investigator: OSUGI AKIHIDE 国立教育政策研究所, 初等中等教育研究部, 部長 (50353397)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 知識観 / 授業構成 / 学習指導 / 学習評価

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There are two purposes of this research. The first is to investigate the attitude to teacher, child, and student's knowledge. The second is to improve methods and techniques of instruction and the evaluation of social studies referring to the attitude to knowledge.
As a result of the research, the following has been understood. The junior high school student and the high school student have a lot of realism. However, there are a lot of ideas of the social constructionism, too. Then, it proposed the following two methods and techniques of instruction. When the content concerning the fact like the system and the mechanism, etc. is taken up by the class, it guides it by the idea of realism. Moreover, when value is judged from the class, it guides it by the idea of the social constructionism.

Free Research Field

社会科教育