抄録
The purpose of this study is to examine “what has been clarified in classes” in articles published in the institutional journals of national academic societies on social studies education. I would like to add the research trend in the past 8 years from 2011 to 2018. In short, the number of the evaluation and the analysis research papers is increasing more than the development research papers of all the journals. The evaluation and analysis researches have recently had a similar feature to the development research. This is also a tendency to describe the essence of methodologies, the content of structural theories, principles related to character building and subjects taught. What is the model of social studies that should be used as a norm from empirical research? Ikeno poses questions related to why social recognition education can be reinterpreted in terms of social studies; what society is; what kind of relationships learners should have; and how can they relate to society; stating that these can all be used as subject matters for research domains. Perhaps these can be positioned as a “foundation” that connects both areas of education and research, which are the grounds for the above mention. We see this “foundation” as synonymous with “norms.” This will encourage reconsideration of the uniqueness and characteristic properties of the subject education research and the research on educational departments.
