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Trends in Japanese Geography Education Research in Recent Years

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Geography Education in Japan

Part of the book series: International Perspectives in Geography ((IPG,volume 3))

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The aim of this chapter is to examine research trends in Japanese geography education, published in academic journals and books from the 1980s to the present. Geography education refers here to school education, namely, elementary, junior high, and senior high school. Attention is paid to several types of research areas in the country, including cognitive, historical, overseas, and practical research such as curriculum or lesson plan development. Recent research on geography education has been influenced by the new national curriculum in Japan and other countries. However, there is a paucity of work in the area of lesson and evaluation studies, which focuses on curriculum evaluation and instruction lessons developed from educational standpoints. Therefore, increased accumulation of research results is expected in the future.

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    Hiroya Yoshimizu

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  1. University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yoshiyasu Ida

  2. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Minori Yuda

  3. Joetsu University of Education, Niigata, Japan

    Takashi Shimura

  4. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shunsuke Ike

  5. Toyama University, Toyama, Japan

    Koji Ohnishi

  6. Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

    Hideki Oshima

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Yoshimizu, H. (2015). Trends in Japanese Geography Education Research in Recent Years. In: Ida, Y., Yuda, M., Shimura, T., Ike, S., Ohnishi, K., Oshima, H. (eds) Geography Education in Japan. International Perspectives in Geography, vol 3. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54953-6_16

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