Anthropological Science (Japanese Series)
Online ISSN : 1348-8813
Print ISSN : 1344-3992
ISSN-L : 1344-3992
Symposium: How to Deal with Human Evolution in Primary and Secondary School Education
The influence of the New Course of Study on teaching and learning of evolution and anthropology, and an example of the anthropology education in a high school
Toshihiko Miyamoto
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2014 Volume 122 Issue 1 Pages 89-93

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The New Course of Study of elementary and of secondary education were revised from 2008 to 2009. Thereby, in secondary education, it can be said that the opportunities for all the students to study an organic evolution increased. For example, in high school, the contents of human-beings evolution were increasing in the textbook of 3 out of 4 total publishing companies. The questionnaire survey about the evolution and anthropology which I performed in 2007 was conducted again, but any big change was not found in the first-year high school students, between before and after New Course of Study enforcement. On the other hand, it was suggested that an understanding of the evolution by students has been promoted with teachers being usually conscious of evolution in lessons and that the effect is increasing further by treating human evolution. As mentioned above, the education to both students and teachers are needed to be continuously given in order to increase the opportunities for the students to study anthropology, and the lecture which makes such an opportunity at a high school was practiced.
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