2025 Volume 65 Issue 3 Pages 709-716
In 2002, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) launched the Super Science High School (SSH) program, and in 2024 it expanded on this by introducing the “Basic Framework for Interdisciplinary Education.” These have stimulated an increased interest in interdisciplinary education in upper secondary schools. We expect the effects of such education to be seen in the future. The school where I work is a designated SSH school. It has established courses in which students can conduct research activities without being constrained by the traditional “humanities” or “hard science” frameworks. In this study, we conducted a mutual presentation and peer evaluation of the results of the students’ research activities at a presentation meeting and examined how students show interest and evaluation in interdisciplinary problem research. The results clarified that many science students highly evaluated research activities in the field of “Japanese language and social studies” in terms of “expressiveness” and “understandability”. The research that received particularly high evaluations had an interdisciplinary aspect that combined the field of “Japanese language and social studies” with science elements.
