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Shiho MIYAKE2007 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 151-168
Published: September 10, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis article aims at exploring the historical development of the FSC in terms of its undertakings and organisation management between 1956 and 1968. It will also consider what the FSC carried out to encourage fieldwork and to meet social demand during the era. In conclusion, as far as characteristic issues of the FSC during 1956-1968 are considered, the most significant strategy in this period may seem to meet demand for formal education and success in raising finance. In fact, the council attempted to exploit staff resources and improve the educational environment for formal education, especially for biology and geography. Besides, operations of the FSC were acknowledged by institutions in the same business in other regions as well as the government, so that the field centres of the FSC became to be recognised as efficient educational facilities for fieldwork among secondary schools and colleges in England and Wales. The idea of field centres of the FSC came to be accepted willingly among schools and other educational organisations. The characteristics of the FSC of this period are that it made successfully provided educational activities which supported the school curriculum, developed staff skills and separate and expand its undertakings on its own initiative.View full abstractDownload PDF (1525K) -
Tomoya YUNOKI2007 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 169-178
Published: September 10, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this study is to enhance the instruction of static electricity through the use of plastic bottles. By utilizing cheap plastic bottles, we can make the experiment instrument cheaply and conveniently. The equipments used for producing and observing static electricity are electrostatic generators, electrostatic motors, and leaf electroscopes. This study will demonstrate how it is possible for each student to construct these necessary materials with plastic bottles. In particular, the Kelvin electrostatic generator made with plastic bottles reveals a surprising phenomenon to the students. Plastic bottles are useful for demonstrating and learning about static electricity and energy. Various experiments can be conducted using plastic bottles and they are instrumental in stirring an interest in the students.View full abstractDownload PDF (1653K) -
Pasi REINIKAINEN, Tetsuo ISOZAKI2007 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 179-192
Published: September 10, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: June 30, 2017
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study presents Finnish and Japanese explanatory variables of science achievement in TIMSS 1999. The methodological approach reflects assumptions that educational outcomes, both cognitive and affective, are socially, culturally, historically, and institutionally situated and context-specific. The purpose of this study is to describe and highlight the wide spectrum of nuances of students' home background, free- and schooltime activities, their motivational factors and affective outcomes of schooling, all of which are connected with students' science achievement. This study was set out to identify, by means of hierarchical linear models (HLM), country-specific groups of variables associated with students' science achievement. The analysis revealed that there were only few statistically significant explanatory variables of science achievement in common to both these countries.View full abstractDownload PDF (1463K)
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