An Empirical Study of Physical Management in School : With special reference to the practical use and non-use of teaching materials

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to do research on the actual condition of the practical use of teaching materials and to analyze the reasons why some of them were used very often and others not. Subjects were 315 middle school teachers [238 men and 77 women]. Contents of the research were mainly on the following two points. 1. to grasp the actual condition of the practical use of common teaching materials and materials in social studies. 2. to analyze the reasons why teachers do not use such materials. Followings were the main results. 1. The level of the actual condition of practical use of common teaching materials was very low. 2. There were a few teaching materials in social studies which used very often. These were a map and topographical chart. But other teaching materials in social studies were not used often. 3. There were three groups non-use group I, non-use group II, and use group, classified by Theory of Quontification III. 4 In general, woman teacher did not use teaching materials frequently in her class compared with man teacher. 5. There were three main factors which affected the reasons why the teaching materials were not used often, (a) ill arrangement of the materials, (b) teacher's inability to handle them, (c) defects attributed to the materials themselves.