Recent trends and prospects in curriculum research and development : Trends in research on social studies education from the point of view of methodology

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate trends in research on social studies education through surveying theses published recently by various academic organizations. From the point of view of methodology, we classified the theses into the following five categories: factual research, theoretical research, historical research, foreign research and related research. Each of these areas is looked at in turn.