Abstract
The purpose of this report is to clarify the trends in researches of sensibility education. I examined the publication year and research contents of 778 theses of sensibility education from 1952 to 2018. The first work was in 1952, and one or several reports had been made. The number of books, however, has increased rapidly since 1996. Especially, there were 62 reports in 1997. The background is thought that it was specified in the report of the Central Education Council in 1996, sensibility was described as an element of living power. Educational magazines have also published special editions of sensibility education one after another. Research on sensibility education is widely conducted in early childhood education, elementary and junior high school education, high school education, and higher education, with elementary and junior high schools accounting for 64% of the total. The research subjects are primarily drawing and crafting / art, literature / Japanese language, music, science, but they are also extensive in other subjects, hands-on activities, information education, etc., and have been studied in general school education.
