鈴木繁聡
Reviewing the Relationship between Education and Evidence:
Focusing on the Process How a Teacher Finds “Evidence”
Shigesato Suzuki
April, 2020
Abstract
This study aims to review the relationship between education and evidence and obtain a new perspective by focusing on the process how a teacher finds “evidence” in his or her educational practices. In this study, I interviewed a teacher called did not conduct questionnaire surveys in an environment where evidence-based education was required. I chose A, a retired school principal of age 60s, as a research participant. I used SCAT or steps for coding and theorization to analyze the data obtained from the interview.
After describing the research method, I analyzed the transitions of A’s educational view. Then, I reconsidered the “relationship between education and evidence” through A’s perception.
Through this research, I pointed out that a teacher, who emphasizes the “learning experience” of the “child,” is interpreting “living world evidence” as a way to respond to accountability which is based on modern scientific evidence through the pursuit of responsibility.
