2020 Volume 102 Issue 1 Pages 58-68
The purpose of this study was to propose teaching content on the subjects of forest science, forestry management, and usage of forest products in high schools according to the Ministry’s official guidelines for school education in 1999, 2009 and 2018. We classified the contents of a technical book on forestry and forest products, and the areas of content from the viewpoint of the subject content studies of “the technology of nurturing living things” in technology education. We found a clear relationship between forests and societies and identified some overlap among the three subjects from 2009. The practice of forest science, the practice of forestry management, and the practice of usage of forest products were placed together as a session about problem-solving activities according to Ministry’s 2018 guidelines. On the others hand, though nursery practices and breeding had been described in a chapter of the technical book and categorize according to the early stage of cultivation, they had been eliminated from the teaching content of forest science in 2018.
