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Textbook Content Analysis Lab (Akie Kobaru)
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The lab uses sociology to study how the knowledge taught in high schools is created.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how high school knowledge is created through textbooks and inquiry-based learning.
Assistant Professor Akie Kobaru's lab takes a sociological approach to studying how educational knowledge in high schools is created.
Until now, the lab has analyzed curriculum policy and textbooks for the high school civics subject "Contemporary Society" and studied how curricula have changed to place more emphasis on developing thinking skills.
Currently, the lab conducts observational studies of inquiry-based learning in high schools and interviews with teachers to study how curriculum policy is put into practice.
Key terms
- Curriculum policy
- Policy that determines which subjects are taught in high schools and how. This lab studies how it is put into practice
- Inquiry-based learning
- Learning in high schools in which students set a problem and work on it. This lab studies it through classroom observation and interviews with teachers
- Textbook content analysis
- A method that analyzes the descriptions, terminology, and materials in textbooks to study changes in the knowledge taught in schools
NewsLab news
Assistant Professor Akie Kobaru received the 7th University of Tokyo Jiritsu Award
Assistant Professor Kobaru wrote a chapter on curricula and textbooks for a sociology of education book for teacher education
Assistant Professor Kobaru wrote a chapter on the transformation of the subject "Contemporary Society" in Kyoikugaku Nenpo 16 (Annals of Educational Studies, Vol. 16)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab seeks to clarify how the knowledge learned in high schools is created through curriculum policy and textbooks. It investigates this through textbook content analysis, observational studies of inquiry-based learning, and interviews with teachers.
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- Assistant ProfessorAkie Kobaru
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