中等学校用ヴァージニア・プランの特質と全体像 : 『学習指導要領社会科編II(試案)』との対比を中心として

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Over the last few decades, we have had a popular view that Course of Study for the Social Studies II (Tentative) for secondary schools in Japan was constructed based on Missouri State Curriculum Program. In a recent paper published in Journal of Educational Research on Social Studies (Shakaika-Kenkyu), No.38, I proposed a new interpretation of the origin of social studies curriculum in Japan after the World War II. The point is that many titles of the units in Course of Study for the Social Studies II (Tentative) were translated from the Virginia State Curriculum Program for secondary schools. The purpose of this paper is to re-evaluate the characteristics of the Virginia State Curriculum Program for secondary school, especially Materials of Instruction Suggested for the Core Curriculum of Virginia Secondary Schools published by the Virginia State Board of Education from 1938 to 1941. The characteristics of that curriculum program for Virginia secondary schools can be summarized as follows: 1) The curriculum aims at "continuation and develpoment of democratic society"; 2) It has a framework based on the concepts of Cultural Anthropology; 3) It deals with universal content in terms of time and space; 4) It is organized based on educational theories of pragmatism by John Dewey.
日本カリキュラム学会の論文
1999-03-31