農業体験学習による子どもの意識・情感への影響に関する実証分析

実施場所の異なる都市地域の3つの小学校を対象として

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It has recently become considered to be both educational and essential for children to experience certain aspects of agricultural work. Actually such programs, especially in primary schools, have been gradually increasing in number in various places in Japan.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of emotion and interest of agricultural experience for children. This study focuses on how the different locales influence the effects of agricultural experience on emotion and interest of children, from case studies of three urban primary schools which are located in typical locales of agricultural experience. I carried out my research by hearing investigation and by participant observation to examine the actual contents of those cases, and questionnaire surveys for urban schoolchildren to quantitatively analyze the effects of emotion and interest of agricultural experience.
The conclusions are as follows:
1. As a result of analysis of quantification theory type II, the effects are influenced by the places where children experienced agricultural work.
2. Agricultural experience in a “suburb area” had positive effects on “powers of observation and scientific knowledge about nature and creatures”, and “understanding about agriculture and rural area”. On the other hand, agricultural experience in a “rural area” had positive effects on “stability of emotion” and “intention to live in a rural area”, and agricultural experience in an “urban area” had positive effects on “activeness and independence”.
3. These differences come from the individual contents, which the different locales of agricultural experience have, especially such as quantity, frequency, and length of agricultural experience, according to hearing investigation and participant observation.
4. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the place and contents of agricultural experience accordingly to the expected effects. From this study, for example, if you aim to make children more emotionally stable, the program of agricultural experience in a rural area is more effective.