Development of science education curriculum that brings up the citizens who have the scientific inquiry ability and scientific power for living the future

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24300271
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: University of Miyazaki
• Principal Investigator: NAKAYAMA Hayashi 宮崎大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (90237470)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SUZUKI Makoto 北海道大学, 高等教育推進機構, 教授 (60322856) ; SARUTA Yuji 國學院大學, 人間開発学部, 教授 (70178820) ; SUMIDA Manabu 愛媛大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50315347) ; UCHINOKURA Shingo 鹿児島大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (70512531) ; INAGA Umi 上越教育大学, 大学院学校教育研究科, 講師 (30585633) ; MIYOSHI Miori 広島大学, 大学院教育学研究科, 准教授 (80423482) ; OHNUKI Asami 帝京平成大学, 現代ライフ学部, 准教授 (40531166) ; MIYAKE Shiho 神戸女学院大学, 人間科学部, 准教授 (80432813) ; ONOSE Rinya 国士舘大学, 文学部, 准教授 (00609761) ; SUZUKI Hiroaki 山形大学, 地域教育文化学部, 講師 (90581843)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 理科 / カリキュラム / 探究スキル / コンピテンス / 教科書 / 問い / モデリング能力 / 科学の本質

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we intended to make explicit the factor and some problems of the science curriculum for the citizens who live in the future. We tackled it through various approaches by setting key words as a clue for problem solving, e.g. “language”, “scientific inquiry”, “learning science” and “scientific literacy”. We conducted surveys and investigation of European and American curriculum, analysis of Japanese school science textbooks, and so on. Though that we got suggestions as (1) the present state and problems of current inquiry activity in Japan, (2) some points of view to introduce scientific inquiry and nature of science as contents, (3) suggestions for importance of the method to assess and to bring up modeling ability, (4) suggestions of educational practice to enhance the gifted children, and so on.

Free Research Field

科学教育