A STUDY ON THE EARTH SCIENCE MATERIALS AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL OF JAPAN AND UNITED STATES -PARTICULARLY ON THE TEXTBOOK -

Abstract

After the Second World War, our science educational world has been received a lot of influence from the United States of America. In this study I compared Japanese textbooks in both lower and upper secondary school with those in U.S.A. about the matter of the earth science, and investigated both the difference of the introduction and the development of teaching materials and the terms making an appearance in the explanation sentences. As the result of that, it was proved that though Japanese science educational world had received a great influence from the modernized movement of the science education in U.S.A. strongly, it had accepted those curriculums -ESCP etc.-without absorbing completely on account of the existing educational system and the unique natural environment.