Development of a program for fostering the qualities and abilities of elementary school teachers who are not good at teaching social studies: Focusing on the formation of a view of teaching

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K13988
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 09040:Education on school subjects and primary/secondary education-related
• Research Institution: Kyoto Notre Dame University
• Principal Investigator: ONISHI Shinya 京都ノートルダム女子大学, 現代人間学部, 准教授 (20755318)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 社会科授業観 / セルフスタディ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to acquire a view of social studies teaching, it is important to have mentors such as colleagues, model senior teachers, administrators, and university faculty members. In other words, they are committing themselves to social studies classes of their own volition while receiving support. A new view of teaching is not something that can be acquired by being taught by someone else, but rather by “practicing social studies classes through trial and error” and “conducting research on social studies education” on one's own. This can be thought of as self-study by the research subjects. And colleagues and other model senior teachers, administrators, and university faculty members are critical friends. The challenge will be to spread the use of self-study in the future.

Free Research Field

社会科教育学、教師教育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

社会科授業においては、授業観の形成が重要になる。インタビュー調査を進める中で、対象者が自分自身で新たな授業観を獲得していく過程が明らかとなってきた。さらに、そこにはクリティカルフレンドにあたる支援者の存在があった。これは、セルフスタディと呼ばれる研究法である。つまり、教員の資質・能力向上に、セルフスタディという新たな研究方法が有効であることが明らかとなってきた。このことが、本研究の教師教育学における学術的意義であり、社会的意義である。