自主シンポジウムIII: 能力について

抄録

We planned this symposium, after judging in the present conditions the scholastic abilities and personality of pupils today as being very negative. The aim of this symposium was to make clear our tasks of research about the development of human abilities and personality.
Sakano, from the standpoint of neurological psychology, described the dynamic process of the higher cortical functions in man, especially the interactions of dominant conters of CNS and laterality of hands. And he indicated the importance of social determinants, for example, the contents of education in schools.
Noro introduced the study and theory of structure of human abilities by J. Lomsscher and his followers. And he stressed that we must study human abilities in connection not only with learning, but with play and labour, too.
Sakamoto, as a researcher of pedagogy, warned about the crisis of education and children in Japan. He insisted on the point that we must pay at tention to the inner world of children, and analyse the children's presentation such as composition, as the expression of the inner would of them. Finally he emphasized the necessity of cooperative study by pedagogists and psychologists.
As a whole, this symposium confirmed that there are many problems left to be solved; for examples, a research on the structure of human abilities and personality respectively and their inter-relations, a research connected with the practice of education, etc.