2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Higher-order literacy and critical thinking ability of 21st-century citizens: Assessment and teaching

Research Project

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Project/Area Number	23243071
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educational psychology
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	Kusumi Takashi 京都大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (70195444)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	KOYASU Masuo 京都大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 教授 (70115658) MICHITA Yasushi 琉球大学, 教育学部, 教授 (40209797) MANALO Emmanuel 京都大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 教授 (30580386) HAYASHI Hajimu 神戸大学, 大学院人間発達環境学研究科, 准教授 (80437178) HIRAYAMA Rumi 大阪音楽大学短期大学部, 音楽科, 准教授 (30533442) NOBUHARA Yukihiro 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (10180770) SAKAGAMI Masamichi 玉川大学, 脳科学研究所, 教授 (10225782) HARA Saku 東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (70463891) MIURA Asako 関西学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (30273569) OGURA Kanayo 岩手県立大学, ソフトウエア情報学部, 講師 (10432139) INUI Kentaro 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (60272689) TANAKA Yuko 名古屋工業大学, 大学院工学研究科, 准教授 (30701495)
Research Collaborator	OGUCHI Mineki 玉川大学, 脳科学研究所, 研究員 (30597258)
Project Period (FY)	2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Keywords	クリティカルシンキング / メディアリテラシー / 科学コミュニケーション / 科学リテラシー / 市民リテラシー / 大学教育 / 情報信頼性 / リスク認知
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This project is divided into three units. Unit 1-1, “Assessment of civil literacy and critical thinking,” develops the tools to assess civil literacy and critical thinking and explores them using survey data on several citizens. Unit 1-2, “Educational program and practice for critical thinking,” examines the effects of several activities based on interaction among high school and university students to improve critical thinking. Unit 2, “Neuroscience literacy and science communication,” explores reasoning and emotion based on the philosophy and neurobiology method and examines science communication through citizens’ activities. Unit 3, “Internet literacy and information credibility evaluation,” explores information credibility, evaluation of radiation risk, and internet literacy using five-wave panel survey data on the residents who lived both near and far from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster site and develops the information credibility analysis system.
Free Research Field	教育心理学