Journal of Science Education in Japan
Online ISSN : 2188-5338
Print ISSN : 0386-4553
ISSN-L : 0386-4553
Volume 15, Issue 1
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  • [in Japanese]
    Article type: Article
    1991 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 1-
    Published: March 10, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
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  • Tou-ichi ITOYAMA
    Article type: Article
    1991 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 2-10
    Published: March 10, 1991
    Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
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    Contents of Methodology of Natural Science are described. This lecture is prepared for freshman in general science course of Faculty of Education in Kagawa University. This lecture is carried out for a half year with the aids of four teachers whose reserch fields are physics, chemistry, biology and earth science, respectively. An aim of this lecture is to brush up the methodology of the understanding and comprehension on natural phenomenon, and to comprehend on principles of natural science for the freshman. The development based on chemistry in this lecture is initiated at a creation of atomic &amp element theory and follows energy level &amp potential theory. On the stand point of the integrated sciences, the description of computer aided chemistry was executed after the development of the concept of energy level &amp potential theory.
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  • Tou-ichi ITOYAMA
    Article type: Article
    1991 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 11-21
    Published: March 10, 1991
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    The fact that integrate of arts and sciences course was juxtaposed to faculty of education involving teachers' training course of elementary school, will be widely understanded from just juxtaposition into reconstruction of curriculum of teachers' training. On the curriculum of teachers'training, it had been discussed at the stand points whether philosophy and technique of teaching or learning on sciences. Recently, in addition, it is pointed out that the advance of science and science technology affects upon the contents of university teaching, and that difficulty of the entrance into upper school and multifarious selection on course of study in the entrance examination of university, produces various university students having diverse capacity of the course of study. Therefore, reconstruction of the curriculum of university teaching, especially general education, will be requested. Understanding the present situation and considering the curriculum of teaching research and training, contents of the course of study in university teaching must be rearranged at the stand points of "Integrate of arts and science" to answer the advanced science and science technology, to teach the various students having diverse capacity and to reconstruct the curriculum of teaching research and training in pedagogy.
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  • Yukiya FUKUHARA
    Article type: Article
    1991 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 22-29
    Published: March 10, 1991
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    IAC curriculum consists of several modules, the module entitled "Energy and Environment Chemistry" was chosen as an illustration of the IAC approach, because it contains a lot of pictures and cartoons so that students might be stimulated to study chemistry. The essential features of this module are that it considers the relationships between the natural sciences and technology and the difficulties appearing in modern society. The module was analysed in terms of: (1) contents; (2) scientific concepts; (3) experiments; (4) attitudes. In the Revised Edition of the Course of Study, which will be effective in 1994, five subjects in the Science Course deal with energy and the environment. The IAC module might be used to design an environmental curriculum as described in the Revised Edition of the Course of Study.
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  • Toshiki MATSUDA, Kazuhiro TAKAHASHI, Takashi SAKAMOTO
    Article type: Article
    1991 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 30-39
    Published: March 10, 1991
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    This study developped a curriculum and instructional materials to teach Lisp programming for high school students in math classes. The curriculum was developped to give more understundings about mathematical formulae processing using computers as tools for simulation. Most of the contents were concerned with math formulae processing. This curriculum is universally appricable for almost any mathematical subjects. Students were expected to re-organize their mathematical knowledge, to improve their understandings, to recognize an importance of mathematical formalization, and so on. An experimental teaching project for a year was administrated to investigate that the curriculum and the materials are appropriate or not. In the project, some instructive results to improve our curriculum were obtained. For example, the "how to define functions" and "the concept of recursion" must be taught in ealier steps of the curriculum. Because of its dual nater (teaching Lisp programming and mathematics), the instructional techniques are very important for the curriculum. In the next step, the "Teachers' Guide" for teachers will be developped, which will be helpful to diffuse the curriculum. Taking ddvantage of computer languages to process mathematical formulae can be a leading method of mdthematical instruction in the future.
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  • Masayuki IWAMOTO, Takao SHINOZAWA
    Article type: Article
    1991 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 40-45
    Published: March 10, 1991
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    In the previous paper, we described the simple screening methods for the environmental mutagens using Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli. We now described a simple and rapid microbial bioassay systems to screen the desmutagens and antimutagens from various sources. Juice prepared from vegetables and human saliva inactivated the chemical mutagen by working directly on it. Some chemical compounds from natural sources suppressed UV mutagenesis in Escherichia coli WP2s . The introduction of these experimental systems into science education and health education in high school were also discussed.
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