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：检视教育中的质的研究理论，以社会研究和生活环境研究为重点的定性个案研究，以及重新检视日本社会研究教育实践的历史研究。在这三年中，我们在福冈县的小学和中学课堂进行了教育实地考察，积累了定性的案例研究。并收集了有关教育中定性方法的书籍和文献，我们对它们进行了审查，以重建我们自己的方法。作为我们研究活动的产物，我们通过参与观察和课堂交流过程的脚本2确定了一种教学研究的方法。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，我们提出了一种以社会课和生活环境课为重点的课堂和教学的定性研究方法，并报告了四个定性案例研究。第二部分，分三章论述对日本社会学史研究教育实践的重新审视。通过多年的研究课题，我们体验和发现了许多关于教育现象的东西，并确定了下一步需要探讨的另一个研究主题。

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.