著者

梅津 正美 Masami UMEZU

出版者

鳴門教育大学

雑誌

鳴門教育大学研究紀要 = Research bulletin of Educational Sciences, Naruto University of Education (ISSN:13434403)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, pp.167-178, 2003-03-07

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The aim in this paper is to clarify the theory on the teaching history for contemporary social studies based on social history. In this paper, I will examine the American Studies Program for 7・8th graders, "Our Social and Cultural History" developed by Frank Alweis in the U.S.A. The results of analysis are as follows: (1) The principal goal of this program is to make students foster the sense of trend, develop the ability to assess the quality of contemporary society through understanding how and why American life and society have developed into what it is today. (2) Key elements of the methodology are: (1) to organize the instructional contents to conceptualize the process of modernization by examining social structure, social consciousness, and social issues from the viewpoint of social activities of ordinary people and expanding social life space. (2) to develop the learning process from the step to interpret motivations for action, and meanings using narrative readings to the step to examine value-related issues in historical context by class-discussion.