Understanding the Developmental Critical Period to Found the Attitude and Values Necessary to Promote Lifelong Science Learning

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25560078
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: NOGAMI TOMOYUKI 神戸大学, その他部局等, 名誉教授 (80127688)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KITANO Sachiko 神戸大学, 大学院人間発達環境科学研究, 准教授 (90309667) ; INAGAKI Shigenori 神戸大学, 大学院人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (70176587) ; YAMAGUCHI Etsuji 神戸大学, 大学院人間発達環境科学研究, 准教授 (00324898)
• Research Collaborator: MURATSU Keita 神戸大学, 大学院人間発達環境科学研究
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 科学教育 / 科学リテラシー / 基盤形成期

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to formulate an analytical framework through interdisciplinary collaboration to understand the developmental critical period in which early childhood education and science education researchers develop a foundation for the attitude and values necessary to promote lifelong science learning. The study successfully used leading case studies on early childhood education in Japan and elsewhere to clarify the requirements to prevent alienation from science occurring at a younger age and established a provisional analytical framework based on those requirements.

Free Research Field

科学教育