On Foreign Regional Geographical Education in Social Studies at Junior High School II

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  • ARAI Masataka
    Takehaya junior high school attached to Tokyo Gakugei University

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  • 中学校社会科地理的分野における外国地誌学習のあり方 (2)
  • チュウガッコウ シャカイカ チリテキ ブンヤ ニ オケル ガイコク チシ ガクシュウ ノ アリカタ 2 アメリカ ガッシュウコク ト マレーシア オ ジレイ ト シタ ジッセンテキ ケンキュウ
  • Based on Practicing the Lessons on the U.S.A. and on Malaysia
  • アメリカ合衆国とマレーシアを事例とした実践的研究

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Abstract

Based on the article the author wrote on this journal last year, he developed two unit lessons. One is on the U.S.A. as a more economically developed country and the other is on Malaysia as a less economically developed country. Considering what the pupils knew about each country, the regional varieties and difference and sustainable development are emphasized in the unit on the U.S.A., while so are interdependence and sympathetic understanding in the unit on Malaysia. In the both units, the author took some sample regions of both countries as local or regional scale studies. At the end of the both units, he asked the pupils to what extent the each country was developed to let them view it comprehensively, followed by the discussion on it in groups and in whole class.<br>What the pupils get most interested in are both economic development and its problems; regional differences and environmental problems in both countries. Many pupils tended to consider development only economically at first, but after discussing to what extent each country is developed they think more highly of the sustainable development and regional differences. The discussion is very effective on viewing a country comprehensively. The efforts for the conservation of nature in the U.S.A., the wisdom of the traditional life and the mutual help of the people in Malaysia stroke a chord with the pupils.<br>The author thinks that through teaching the various daily lives of a country, the foreign regional geography lesson should promote the citizenship both by considering development from the wide viewpoint and by making pupils think about what they should live and what the society should be. In the foreign regional geography lessons, pupils should be taught the followings;<br>1. About both more economically developed countries and less economically developed countries.<br>2. To examine a country through four viewpoints; regional varieties and differences, sustainable development, interdependence and sympathetic understanding.<br>3. To examine a country both at a national scale and at a local or a regional scale.<br>4. To examine to what extent a country is developed and what the wonderful points of a country.

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  • THE NEW GEOGRAPHY

    THE NEW GEOGRAPHY 54 (3), 1-14, 2006

    The Geographic Education Society of Japan

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