著者

高崎 文子

出版者

熊本大学教育学部附属教育実践総合センター

雑誌

熊本大学教育実践研究

巻号頁・発行日

vol.38, pp.27-35, 2021-02-12

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were forced to close nationwide. In addition, elementary and junior high school students could not freely go outside their homes and had to study at home. This situation is assumed to have negative influence on their motivation to learn and mental health.The purpose of this study was to investigate regarding how students managed to study at home, how they responded to online classes and how they coped with the stressful lifestyle during the 3-month period they were off school. 782 elementary school students and 370 junior high school students participated this survey.The results was showed that both elementary and junior high school students were given online lessons in May 2020, either monodirectional or interactive, every day. Most of the students worked every day over homework given by schools, elementary school pupils for over two hours and junior high students for over three hours. Besides doing the homework, many children spent time watching TV or YouTube or doing other enjoyable things including hobbies. In general, few stress symptoms were seen, but an indication that exercising reduces stress and playing games and SNS online increases stress was gained from the survey results.