2023 Volume 65 Issue 1 Pages 42-49
In this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey about educational linkage between schools, zoos and aquariums for 615 elementary school and junior high school’ teachers in the six prefectures in Japan. The current status and some issues of this educational linkage was clarified through this study. The survey found that about 70% teachers had visited zoos or aquariums as school events. However, the effort on connecting the visit with the subject matters learnt at school, such as Science and Japanese, was less than 20%. Many elementary and junior high school teachers expected there is an educational linkage with zoos and aquariums. However, there are some barriers for positive collaboration, not only the physical reasons such as distance, time and cost, but also the lack of useful information for teachers. In the future, in order to expand educational linkage between school and other institutions, which are supporting the learning process, it is necessary to develop better educational collaboration system and the form of collaboration that is easy to be implemented at both institutions.
