2018 年 35 巻 3 号 p. 260-274
Active learning, which makes students active more than listening, is attracting interest in educational fields. In this study, the authors focus on supporting reflection. Through the experiences of practice in higher education, the authors found following two issues about active learning. (1) Students tend to not explain their notion based on systematized contents such as textbook or materials provided by teacher. (2) It is difficult to analyze the results of reflection. The authors tackled to the issues using knowledge explication method. Knowledge explication is the methodology to explicate and structure the site-specific knowledge based on common knowledge. The site-specific knowledge denotes the knowledge which depends on the particular site and the common knowledge denotes the knowledge which is common in the broader community than the site. As a result, the authors confirmed the following effects of knowledge explication through the two practice. (1) Students can explain their notion based on systematized lesson-contents. (2) Teacher can analyze the results of reflection from the various perspectives. The contributions of this research are to introduce the knowledge explication method to higher education and to provide the case study of it. Both the method and the practical information can be useful for the community for information and systems in education.