A Study of Process Skill-Oriented Curriculum Development in Early Childhood Science Education

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24531037
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educaion
• Research Institution: Osaka Ohtani University
• Principal Investigator: KOTANI Takuya 大阪大谷大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (50411484)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAGASE Yoshiko 大阪大谷大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50247889) ; TANAKA Noboru 岐阜大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (70508465) ; MINE Kyoko 大阪大谷大学, 教育学部, 講師 (90611187)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 幼小縦断 / 科学教育 / 思考のスキル / 発達の姿 / 観察 / コミュニケーション / 能力指標

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of our study is (1) to develop systematic scientific activities from 3- to 8-year-old young children and to make the developmental viewpoints suitable for various scientific activities.
The main results of our study are as follows; (1) the total amount of developed scientific activities is 33 for 3 years. 17 scientific activities are for young children in kindergarten and 16 ones for in primary school. (2) Some characteristics of young child’s exploration could be found by analyzing their “Words” and “Behavior”. Firstly Young children tend to gaze their interested objects for a while. Secondly they tend to throw a look at their friends’ behavior and conservation when they did not know how to do it during their exploration. (3) Eight kinds of the developmental viewpoints during their exploration which can affect the formation of scientific literacy could be extracted from the data of transcripts.

Free Research Field

理科教育・幼児期から低学年児童期の科学教育・幼児教育