The purpose of this paper is to consider the meaning of
ikirukoto ‘Character Building’ that students had gotten through regional studies in thier school days, focusing on the process of deciding on future course in their third year of senior high school. To put it concretely, I adopted the regional studies class that Mr. FUJIMOTO Masatoshi gave his students in Miyoshi Junior High School (1990-1992), and conducted a follow-up research for his graduates. Especialy I analyzed 11 graduates who attended the elective course class “Is Miyoshi-mura a depopulated area?” in 1992.
In this paper, I made use of an analysis method of Life History Approach, that is to say I was to send out questionaires to his graduates in 1992, and to interview 11 graduates attended the elective course class.
It follows from these investigations that the meaning of their experience to have studied regional studies at Miyoshi Junior High School may be divided into three types, on the grounds how they are conscious of Miyoshi-mura including their family through the process of deciding future course.
The first type is of use one of the most important factors to decide their future course, and prompting to get their new cognition for Miyoshi-mura, too.
The second type is of no use one of the most important factors to decide their future course. However, this type is able to get their new congnition for Miyoshi-mura.
The third type is not only of no use one of the most important factors to decide their future course, but also not to get their new congnition for Miyoshi-mura.
On the other hand, it became clear that graduates rated FUJIMOTO's regional studies class highly. These results leads to some of the important viewpoints that we consider in lesson construction theories to get both
manabukoto ‘Scholastic Ability Building’ and
ikirukoto ‘Character Building’ in regional studies. Those are described as follows.
1) Students who have an awareness of the issues with a great deal of personality and earnest in daily life, learn high quality
ikirukoto ‘Character Building’ from regional studies.
2) Students who have learned through high quality experience, get high quality
ikirukoto ‘Character Building’ in regional studies.
3) Students get meaningful learning, when a personal learning conbines with a group learning organically.
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