Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-17T19:55:38.209Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Problems with Teaching Astronomy in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. Miyawaki
R. Miyawaki*
Affiliation:
Fukuoka University of Education, Munakata-city, Fukuoka 811-41, Japan
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

By 1989 a new curriculum in Japanese elementary and secondary schools had been devised and started. I will report on the contents of the new curriculum and point out some problems in teaching astronomy in Japan identified from the results of recent research in science education. Recent research shows that it is important to know how children’s ideas and misconceptions are constructed and what role the philosophy of science may play in shaping them.

Type
Education
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , 1991 , pp. 184
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Baxter, J., 1989, International Journal of Science Education, 11, 502.Google Scholar
Hills, G. L. C., 1989, Science Education, 73, 155.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hodson, D., 1985, Studies in Science Education, 12, 25.Google Scholar
Klein, C. A., 1982, Science Education, 66, 95.Google Scholar
Mali, G. B. and Howe, A., 1979, Science Education, 63, 685.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Malumori, Y., 1986, Bulletin of Society of Japan Science Teaching, 27, 9 (in Japanese).Google Scholar
Nussbaum, J. and Novak, J. D., 1976, Science Education, 60, 535.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nussbaum, J., 1979, Science Education, 63, 83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Owaki, N., 1987, Journal of Science Education in Japan, 11, 99 (in Japanese).Google Scholar
Owaki, N. and Isobe, S., 1988, Vistas in Astronomy, 31, 863.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sneider, C. and Pulos, S., 1983, Science Education, 67, 205.Google Scholar
Tubota, Y., 1990, in Proc. IAU Colloq. No. 105: Teaching of Astronomy, Pasachoff, J. M. and Percy, J. R. (eds), CUP, p. 280.Google Scholar