Development of a Life and Environment Studies Teaching Plan Aimed at Forming the Foundation of Social Cognition A Case Study of the Development of a Food Education Program that Encourages Students to Understand Their Relationships with People

本研究は，社会認識の基盤を形成することを目指した生活科授業の構成原理を，身近な人々との関わりの捉えさせ方に焦点をあて，提案するものである。具体的には，給食を取り上げた食育プログラムの開発を通して，人々との直接的な関わりから間接的な関わりの認識へと視点を転換することを通して，児童の社会認識の範囲を少しずつ拡大し，中学年以降の社会科の目標となる科学的な社会認識の基盤を形成することを目指す。給食という児童にとって学校生活の中でも関心の高い事象を取り上げ，調理員など直接的な関わりを捉えられる人々だけではなく農家の人など間接的にしか自分との関わりが捉えられない人々へと対象を拡大することで，科学的な社会認識の基盤を形成するための視点を獲得させる授業を提案する。This study proposes a principle for constructing a life science class aimed at forming the foundation of social awareness, focusing on how to make students understand their relationships with the people around them. Specifically, through the development of a dietary education program that focuses on school lunches, we aim to gradually expand the scope of children's social awareness by shifting their perspective from direct relationships with people to recognition of indirect relationships, and to form the basis for scientific social awareness that will be the goal of social studies in the middle grades and beyond. By taking up school lunches, an event that is of great interest to students in their school life, and expanding the scope of the subject to include not only those who can be directly related to them, such as cooks, but also those who are only indirectly related to them, such as farmers, we propose a class that allows students to acquire the perspective to form the basis of scientific social awareness. We will propose a lesson that enables students to acquire a viewpoint to form the basis of scientific social awareness