A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES AND LIFE-ENVIRONMENT STUDIES CLASSES

本研究计画有三重目的：检视教育质性研究的理论、以社会科与生活环境科教室为重点进行质性个案研究，以及重新检视日本社会科教育实务的历史研究。在这三年中，我们在福冈县的小学和中学课堂上进行了五次教育实地考察，并积累了定性的案例研究。并搜集有关质的教育方法的书籍和文献，加以检视，以重建我们自己的方法论。作为我们研究活动的产物，我们通过参与观察和对课堂交流过程的跟踪脚本确定了一种教学研究方法。为了完成我们的研究项目，我们发表了一份研究报告。它由两部分组成。在第一部分中，我们提出了一种课堂和教学的定性研究方法，重点是社会研究类和生活环境研究类，并报告了四个定性的案例研究。第二部分，三章分别论述了日本社会科教育实践史研究的重新审视.通过多年的研究项目，我们对教育现象有了更多的体验和发现，并确定了另一个值得探讨的研究主题。

This research project has the three-fold aims of examining the theories of qualitative research in education, doing qualitative case-studies focusing social studies and life-environmental studies classrooms, and re-examining of the historical studies of the social studies education practices in Japan.1. In these three years, we practiced the educative fieldwork, may times, in elementaru and secondary classrooms in Fukuoka Prefecture, and accumulated qualitative case-studies. And collecting books and documets about qualitative methods in education, we examined them to reconstruct our own methodologies. As a product of our research activities, we identilied a me thud of research in instruction through participant-observation and trausscripting of class-commnunication processes2. To finish our research project, we published a research report. It is constituted of two Parts. In part one, we propose a method of qualtitative studiy of classroom and instruction focusing on the social studies classes and life-environmental studies classes, and report four qualitative case studies. In part two, each of three chapters discusses about re-examining of historical studies of social studies education practices in Japau.3. Through the years of research project, we experieuced and found many things about phenomena of education , and identified another research themes which should be inquired next.