1999 年 1999 巻 80 号 p. 18-34
This paper reaffirms and clarifies thinking processes pertaining to studies in “educational thought”. Here, “educational thought” means some ideas in educators' mind which motivate their educational behaviors consistently in a certain way. The problem concerning the thinking processes of this type of studies, which do not depend on the method of “experiment” or “questionnaire”, is : where do they search for the data to go upon? The present paper gives an answer to this question. It concludes that this type of studies presume some pre-conscious ways of thinking or behavior which extend pervasively in our everyday life processes.