Political Education for New Voters in Japan and Media frame.

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K12703
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 90020:Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics-related
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: Ogawa Tsuneo 東海大学, 文化社会学部, 教授 (60256162)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 主権者教育 / 政治コミュニケーション / 探究学習 / 公共 / 新有権者 / ミニパブリックス / 討論型世論調査

Outline of Final Research Achievements

From a series of information frame experimental surveys targeting new voters, we found that (1) information that predicts the merits and demerits of issues in the immediate living sphere is information that is based on the premise of predicting the impact on a wide range of social spheres; (The information contained in high school textbook) tends to increase motivation to learn about the issues at issue. This seems to be related to the fact that the areas in which people can be proactively involved have expanded due to information that makes it easy to understand the advantages and disadvantages of those involved in their lives. Furthermore, this tendency was more clearly supported under the conditions of (2) information literacy (low group) and self-efficacy (high group). This suggests that self-efficacy and information frames may serve to compensate for low information literacy related to issues.

Free Research Field

社会心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

今回の研究成果は、新有権者への主権者教育で重要なことは「知識量」だけでなく、政治的情報を自分にとって意味のあるものにする「理解や判断の枠組み」をサポートする先行学習情報（advanced organizer）にも工夫がなされる必要があることを意味する。初期政治的社会化の過程にある高校生および新有権者の政治的関心の向上には、主体的学習動機を引き出す前段階での学習情報、いわゆる、先行学習情報としての教育メディア・フレーム開発にも注力が要請される。