Research on the Akashi Plan for Science Education in the Early Postwar Years : Analysis of Materials Related to the Use of the Akashi Plan (1948-1949)

Abstract

This research report aims to discuss science education under the Akashi Plan (1948-1949), which was a core curriculum, composed of Core Studies and Basic Studies. This topic has already been discussed at the planning level in the research of Mizobe and Inagaki (2005). This report shows how science education was carried out at the practice level, by analyzing the teaching plans of the time, which were published in a 100th anniversary magazine, as well as through investigation by questionnaires and interviews with students and a teacher from the time. The results were as follows: 1. Science education was related to the Core Studies. 2. Science education was related also to the Basic Studies, and they were both closely related to four types of Basic Studies. The above results support the conclusions obtained from the research of Mizobe and Inagaki (2005).