著者
田中 耕三
出版者
日本地理教育学会
雑誌
新地理 (ISSN:05598362)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.47, no.3-4, pp.142-149, 2000-03-25 (Released:2010-04-30)
参考文献数
14

The contents of this paper consist of the seven subjects indicated below. With the exception of (6), this paper provides a summary of views pertaining to various aspects of geography education from the standpoint of education in the classroom.(1) Detrimental effects were indicated with respect to the contents of textbooks being regulated by school curriculum guidelines, and all textbooks tending to be excessively uniform. This may be considered to be analogous to the current issue of relaxation of regulations.(2) Starting around 1965, the number of regional geographical teaching materials within the contents of elementary school social studies has diminished, and a trend of a lack of spatial understanding was pointed out from a comparison with the enhancement of period history in history teaching materials. It was stated that this dissociation of both fields should be corrected from the standpoint of healthy social studies development.(3) Differences in the manner in which education administration and geographical societies are reflected in geography education were compared between the US and Japan through a comparison of those factors. In other words, in Japan, the intentions of geographical societies are not reflected in education administration, and it was pointed out that classroom education presently is overly dependent on the Ministry of Education resulting in uniform and passive education.(4) Personal opinions were stated regarding the importance of the handling of place names that constitute essential basic knowledge in geography education.(5) A present situation that has wandered off course while looking back over the progress of the past fifty years since the end of World War II is depicted with respect to the two forms of training, an endless topic in the field of education.(6) The paper of Prof. Osamu Nishikawa is discussed, and an introduction is provided to the practicality of geography in both present and future society.(7) With respect to differences between the sexes in learning geography, the question was raised based on personal experiences of the author that, in addition to differences in physiological phenomena of the cerebrum between males and females, significant differences between interests and concerns among females may be one of the causes of an inaptitude for learning geography.