大学の「生命倫理」科目における一教材の質的データ分析‐小動物虐待・致死に関する児童の作文を修材として‐ : －小動物虐待・致死に関する児童の作文を教材として－

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The purpose of this study was to clarify either gender difference or cognitive characteristics for an educational material regarding animal abuse and death, through qualitative data analysis of student's free-style answers in life ethics class. At the first lecture of life ethics class, 97 college students (62 male and 35 female) read a diary of elementary school boy, and submitted short reports in 15 minutes. The content of the diary was "One of his friends beat an abandoned kitten to death, but he couldn't stop his friend. When he told his family about that story, all the family went to make a memorial grave for the cat. He wrote this in his journal which was submitted to his teacher, but received a comment from his teacher only saying that it is a sad story". For a qualitative data analysis of student's answer, eight compress factors were assigned as quantitative factors which were deducible from the child's diary. As a gender difference of their reports, the number of description of "education of school teacher" was statistically higher in female (p<0.01). Either "the total number of characters" or the number of description of "words and actions of his father and family" also tended to be higher in female than in male (p=0.058 and 0.061, respectively).