2022 Volume 45 Issue 1 Pages 11-22
We have developed a home economics program in junior high school to learn about family by role-playing based on “five ways of relating to each other” (Matsumura & Saito, 1991), a theory of human relations. The program was practiced for junior high school students, and we clarified the effects of our program on their relationship skills with their families and parents. It has been widely accepted that students’ interest in learning about family in home economics classes is low. Therefore, we analyzed the effects of role-playing on the relationship skills of acceptance, emotion recognition, action recognition, and action based on a quantitative survey by classifying students into two groups: those with high interest in family learning and those with low interest. Family learning includes role-playing, 1. It attracts students’ interest in learning. 2. Regarding acceptance, it was shown that junior high school students with less interest significantly increased their acceptance. 3. Regardless of learning interest, they significantly increase emotion recognition, behavior recognition, and behavior after learning.
Since learning about the family with role-playing based on a theory of human relations has good influences on students’ family and parent relationship skills, it is essential to examine further interest in learning about family and relationship skills with families and parents in the future.
