態度変容をめざした授業構成の問題点

Abstract

In the present world, we are confronted with the problems concerning gloval environment, human rights, peace, race and ethnic, developing countries and so on. Moreover, such problems become more complicated. We are necessitated not only to recongnize them as matters of life and death, but also to conduct a certain social action for solving them, now.From educational points of view, such problems are the most important parts of the teaching materials and contents of social studies. Therefore, the social studies lessons on such problems have to be aimed at changing students' values and attitudes toward solving them.The purpose of this paper is to propound several problems in the social studies lesson construction aimed at changig students' attitudes through analizing the lesson construction theories in International Education.The lesson construction theories aimed at changing students' attitudes have been studied by many reserchers. Especially, the lesson construction theory “A New Problem Solving Method” (ATARASHII MONDAIKAIKETSUGAKUSHU) presented by Prof. Nobushige Imatani is one of the most prominent theories, because his theory contains students' practical attitudes, such as “rational decision making” and “independent social participation”, as elements of the lesson construction. However, we can find several problems comparing his theory with the lessons based on it.Those are described as follows.1) how to deal with students' value inquiry process in the lesson construction.2) how to comprehend the quality of students' value inquiry and how to answer for its improvement.3) how to harmonize lesson construction elements with the lesson order.4) how to comprehend students' practical attitude and how to answer for forming their attitudes in lesson construction.5) how to answer for the continuty of students' value inquiry and thinking both in lesson construction and in curriculum construction.In addition, these points are generally seen in other lesson construction theories.