Abstract
This study aims at examining contexts of learning and teaching/learning methods which motivate students to learn about the living environment of aged people. We conducted a questionnaire survey of 791 senior high school students in order to grasp the present situation of their will to learn. We gave consideration to difference by attribute and knowledge of these senior high school students. The characteristic points found are as follows. 1. Students, especially male, lack knowledge concerning the living environment of aged people. 2. As many as half of those students answered that they do not have any will to learn about the living environment of aged people. male students in their 2nd year and have lost their grandfather/mother with no knowledge about the living environment of aged people, have this tendency more than the others. 3. Students having learning will or not can be classified into ten reasons. "Having learning will" is distributed among various reasons. On the other hand, "Having no learning will" is limited to only two. A minute examination shows that each reason has various contexts and differences between boys and girls. 4. To raise their learning wills, it is necessary to grasp the living problems of aged people not only as personal problems but also as problems of society, and to solve these problems by strengthening their-self-active independence.
