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Interdisciplinary Learning in Japanese Lower Secondary School: A Questionnaire Survey of Students’ Understanding of Enzymes as Life or Matter

Received: 16 February 2014     Published: 10 March 2014
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The new Japanese Government Curriculum Guidelines include a framework that comprises the four core ideas of energy, particle, life, and earth. These are primarily relevant to physics, chemistry, biology, and earth sciences, respectively. The four core ideas allow the boundaries between subjects to be flexible, which may foster interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary viewpoints. An enzyme is an interdisciplinary learning item that lies between life and particle (or matter), and may be used as a marker for the evaluation of students’ interdisciplinary viewpoints. The results of the questionnaire show that Japanese lower secondary students have only a vague concept of an enzyme, and of the boundary between life and matter.

Published in Science Journal of Education (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.sjedu.20140201.15
Page(s) 33-36
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Questionnaire, Interdisciplinary Learnings, Japanese Lower Secondary School, Enzyme, Life or Matter

References
[1] Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Government Curriculum Guidelines, 2008, 2009; http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/new-cs/youryou/index.htm.(accessed: July 3, 2013).
[2] T. Munegumi, Interdisciplinary Science Education and "Origin of Life": An Exemplification with Teaching Aids, 2013; Science Journal of Education, 1(2): 20–27.
[3] National Research Council of the National Academies. Framework for K-12 Science Education, 2012; http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165#
[4] National Research Council of the National Academies. Framework for K-12 Science Education, 2012; p. 83.
[5] National Research Council of the National Academies. Framework for K-12 Science Education, 2012; p. 41.
[6] C. M. Czerniak, Interdisciplinary Science Teaching, In Handbook of Research on Science Education, Ed. by S. K. Abell and N. G. Lederman, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2007, pp. 537–559.
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  • Department of Science Education, Naruto University of Education, Naruto, Tokushima 772-8502, Japan

  • Department of Science Education, Naruto University of Education, Naruto, Tokushima 772-8502, Japan

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