| 内容 |
In Japan, education for shutaisei is drawing an attention. One of education is IT programming for elementary children. Programming lesson will be compulsory within all subjects at all elementary schools from 2020. Although programming lesson has not be compulsory at elementary school, children learning IT programming as extra-curricular is increasingly with a focus on Kanto area. What is shutaisei? The critical mind of this paper is “Are there the gap of consciousness of shutaisei on programming education among educators and parents? Does it relates parents’ consciousness of shutaisei to their children’s shutaisei?” Regarding attitude survey, it draws from an interview with children, parents, and educators. As a result, the large gap of consciousness of shutaisei and the large gap of the view of programming among them. Also, no relevant to consciousness of shutaisei between parents and children. It cannot directly insist that being compulsory programming education will lead education for fostering children’s shutaisei. Nevertheless, as it implemented in some developed countries, programming education has the potential to have a good influence on elementary children in term of their developing shutaisei. |
| 講評 |
Congratulations to the Stevenson Seminar members of the graduating class of 2019! This year’s graduation theses covered a broad range of “globalization, education and culture” issues, spanning topics of ethics in curricula, environmental awareness, fashion, sustainability, concepts of beauty, shutaisei, overseas study, and adventure. Methodologies were nearly as diverse, including the use of text (primary and secondary), qualitative interviews, questionnaires, and field observations. Befitting a university and department that value the moral dimensions of education, nearly all of the theses share an explicit or implicit focus on conscious. In addition, each paper includes an original component, demonstrating the students’ ability to work with new topics or take a new approach to a familiar theme. Also, apart from the normal challenges of researching and writing, each student used at least a few non-Japanese-language sources, and all students wrote their papers in English, evidencing both language ability and tremendous effort. The end result is a collection of papers that have contributed to the growth of the students in terms of both technical skill and intellectual development, and of which the seminar should be proud. |
