著者
岩崎 秀樹 阿部 好貴 山口 武志
出版者
一般社団法人 日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.32, no.4, pp.366-377, 2008-12-10 (Released:2017-06-30)
参考文献数
28
被引用文献数
1

The purpose of this research is to clarify the current issues of mathematical literacy and to propose its future perspective. In this paper, we firstly look at the historical and social development of the conception of literacy from the hunter-gatherer society through the agricultural society and the industrial society to the knowledge-based or information society. Secondly, we consider the asymmetrical relationship between the society and individuals, in terms of "mathematization". The point is that mathematics becomes implicit and invisible for the people, because it is embedded in technological tools such as calculators and computers in the society. This situation can be best summarized by the following words: "an increasing mathematization of our society is complemented by an increasing demathematization of its individual members" (Keitel, 1997:2). Because we are living in this mathematized society, we should develop mathematical literacy in order to encode and decode from the real world to the mathematical one. From this perspective, we discussed the fundamental principle of an alternative curriculum for mathematical literacy. In short, it means that mathematical thinking including modeling and critical thinking is emphasized increasingly as well as mathematical contents.
著者
北澤 武 望月 俊男
出版者
一般社団法人日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.2, pp.117-134, 2014

New teachers who are shocked by real-world classroom situations—such as rules of the local school, human relationships in a shielded environment, and the reality of teaching children—tend to leave the workforce within a few years, and it has become necessary to educate student teachers in the universities with a focus on adaptive professional socialization of teachers (Zeichner & Gore, 1990) to overcome this problem. We have provided a SNS (Social Networking Service) where pre-service teachers can have a dialogue based on their report of experiences during their practice teaching. However, in order to promote the professional socialization of teachers, we designed a new SNS where experienced teachers can participate in a lesson. We then compared by year the effects of studying the changed lesson. We revised the design of the pre-teaching from the year 2010, and altered the lesson design of the pre-teaching for the year 2012, so that an experienced teacher can join face-to-face lessons and a university teacher and an experienced teacher waited to submit their comments to SNS until almost all students had submitted. As we aimed to increase submission of diaries and comments about professional socialization, we changed the classroom design in the year 2013, introducing storytelling about the image of their practice teaching, and the way of intervention in SNS by an experienced teacher. The results show an increase of diaries and comments which were submitted to SNS about "social behavior as professionals," "commitment towards work," "value and standpoint as teachers," "expectation and actuality of schools" and "efficacy".
著者
松岡 葉月
出版者
一般社団法人 日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.32, no.1, pp.56-64, 2008-03-10 (Released:2017-06-30)
参考文献数
24

It is important that people maintain science communication at places such as museums throughout their lives, and the natural science museum carries an important role in this respect. However, a museum where science communication is developed is not only natural science system. Technology itself pervades in many aspects of human life, and that a general viewpoint beyond field of the studies has developed is a factor. This study clarifies the possibility of science communication in the History Museum in this through a fusion with history and natural science. The reason is that of physics and chemistry wethedology has been applied to the study of history. And therefore to think about human history from relations with natural environment from the viewpoint of environmental disruption has become important. From such techniques and an expansion of the object of historical study, I developed learning resources by fusing history and natural science in the History Museum, and show an example of the learning program and the actual situation of the user. A big problem in science communication is bidirectional communication between researchers and citizens. In this study, I pointed out that science literacy through citizens' active learning was necessary for bidirectional communication in the museum. Science literacy is a learning theory of constructivism and a scientific intellectual power. Furthermore, it involves fundamental skills for learning natural science and history. Science communicators understood these points and emphasized the necessity of learning support.
著者
吉田 甫 河野 康男
出版者
一般社団法人 日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.27, no.2, pp.111-119, 2003
参考文献数
22

A new curriculum based on stundent's informal knowledge in ratio was established in the present study. The goal of this study was to examine the effect of the new curriculum on students' understanding of ratio. The ratio concept as a quantity rather than symbol operations was stressed in the new curriculum. In addition, the second term of proportion (b × p=a ; b : base quantity, p : proportion, a: quantity to be compared) was introduced first in the sequence of teaching three terms on ratio. Thirty-five students participated in eight lessons based on the new curriculum and 71 received normal lessons following the textbook. The students of the experimental group showed significantly superior performance over the textbook group (control group) in solving ratio problems. Although computational strategy was used in the textbook group in problem solving, an estimation strategy was mainly adopted in the experimental group. These results are discussed from the viewpoint of curriculum based on informal knowledge in children.
著者
大橋 淳史
出版者
Japan Society for Science Education
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.39, no.1, pp.11-18, 2015

An experiment using a plant of purple sprout and soil of 'mebae gel' were developed in order to obtain interdisciplinary teaching materials straddling biological and chemical studies. The improved cultivation method using the gel made it possible to observe the growth of the roots easily and obtain anthocyanin from the plant effectively. Moreover, the hardness of water can be analyzed quantitatively using a solution of anthocyanin. The experiments were undertaken in a junior high school and confirmed that these teaching materials are effective.
著者
山下 修一 YEO Jennifer 湯地 涼介 中村 祐樹 山田 実加 成松 泉 平野 祐希子 YANG Lim Tong HWEE Lim Chia 野村 純 大嶌 竜午 馬場 智子 林 英子
出版者
一般社団法人 日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.41, no.2, pp.96-106, 2017 (Released:2017-07-15)
参考文献数
14

The purpose of this study was to investigate how findings in science education findings play a key role in the improvement of science lessons for secondary school students. Japanese university students created a science lesson on tomography for Singapore students as part of the TWINCLE program. We investigated the change of lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, teaching materials and worksheets on the topic of tomographic visualization before and after the lesson with our Singapore counterparts. The results of this study show three key points: 1. The process of improvement of the science lesson became a form of active learning for the university students. 2. The university students’ lesson plans and teaching materials were revised according to the context so as to find the location of blood clots present in blood vessels. 3. The revised hands-on activity exposed secondary school students to a more “authentic” application of the concept of tomography.
著者
瀬戸崎 典夫 森田 裕介 竹田 仰
出版者
一般社団法人 日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.33, no.4, pp.370-377, 2009
参考文献数
15
被引用文献数
6

The purpose of this research was to examine the teaching effect of using a "Multi-view VR Teaching Material of the Solar System". The teaching experiment was conducted with elementary and high school students. The result shows that the VR Teaching Material improved the interest and attitude of the elementary school students. In addition, it was shown that when the VR Teaching Material was used as an introduction, the level of understanding improved. Moreover, high school students obtained a similar learning effect, regardless of the use of the VR Teaching Material. In addition, we suggeste that the VR Teaching Material improves the level of understanding of elementary school students, and high school students with low learning capacity.
著者
大島 まり 川越 至桜 石井 和之
出版者
一般社団法人 日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.39, no.2, pp.59-66, 2015 (Released:2015-06-30)
参考文献数
11

Science and technology have continued to become more diversified in recent years, leading to further promotion of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and to advances that can be incorporated into science education. The Office for the Next Generation (ONG) was founded in 2011 at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo, to promote STEM education through outreach programs in collaboration with various industries. In this paper, we present several outreach programs designed and conducted by the ONG. The collaborative university/industry programs aim to encourage students in primary and secondary schools to deepen their understanding of STEM as well as the social roles and significance of science and technology. One of the goals of our outreach programs has been the development of a series of lectures by IIS professors and teaching materials such as experiment kits and visual materials based on the lectures. The visual materials will be provided as DVDs or YouTube videos. The materials will be provided with classroom instructions according to the curriculum of the related subjects, including social studies. We also describe the workshops developed jointly by ONG and industries. The outreach programs have been evaluated by questionnaire survey and by interviews of lecturers and people in industry. Lastly, we provide a summary of the challenges and the future prospects of the STEM education and outreach programs in university/industry collaboration.
著者
奥本 素子 岩瀬 峰代
出版者
一般社団法人 日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.39, no.4, pp.359-366, 2015 (Released:2016-02-24)
参考文献数
20

Recently, art has received a lot of attention in science communication as a tool for engaging a potential audience. However, there are few studies that have analyzed the effects and characteristics of art in science communication. Therefore, the present research is an attempt to examine the emotional and transmission effects of art in the context of science communication. We used two works of art created through collaboration between scientists and artists. These works were then compared with other images of science communication and were analyzed for their communicative effects. Through an experiment that gauged the emotional effect of art, we found that people tend to be impressed by the novelty of a work of art. Through another experiment that probed the transmission effect of art, we also found that a work that used analogy could transmit a complex science concept better than a typical science illustration.
著者
山邉 昭則
出版者
一般社団法人 日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.3, pp.196-203, 2014 (Released:2014-09-11)
参考文献数
8

The use of visual expression in education has expanded significantly since the emergence of printing and photography technologies towards the end of the 19th century. Education and research in the 21st century will not be limited to the now-traditional combination of text and figures. E-books can now incorporate a wide variety of visual content and supplementary web services for printed textbooks are becoming standard. Science education research in particular cannot ignore the increasing academic use of visual content.This article provides a qualitative examination of the visual communication of science (focusing on educational material and research publications) in foreign institutions that have experimented with these new forms of education earlier than Japan. It shows that examples of visual communication can be grouped into organization-driven and researcher-driven types. The former brings the benefit of organization-wide visual unification, while the latter ensures that the researcher brings his/her professional expertise to the project. With increasing expectations for visual communication in education and research both in Japan and overseas, including the spread of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), there is a need of further consideration of institutional understanding of and support for visual communication in science.
著者
山口 悦司 稲垣 成哲
出版者
一般社団法人日本科学教育学会
雑誌
科学教育研究 (ISSN:03864553)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, no.4, pp.204-214, 1998-12-10
被引用文献数
3