児童期における意見表明の諸形態とその発達

The purpose of he present study was to investigate developmental process Of expression of views in school children. The study was conducted in an elementary school in Tottori City in 1997 and 1998. The first through sixth grade elementary school children were chosen as subjects of this study. Children were asked to express their own views in 3 situations such as the situation of expression about homework, recognition of fact, and innocence 85 students in 1997 and 77 students in 1998 were participated in this study. The results were as follows: l There were 3 types of answer from that included “uncommunicative expression", “behavioral expression" and “verbal expression".2 Children express their views in several ways, which included ``following with others", “expressing their feeling", “denying others expression, and merely stating fact", ``returning question", and" persuading with reason". 3.Children's expression ways of view change depends on their grade. Some children's expression ways of view change remarkably through a year. For instance, children who used the uncommunicative expression in 1997 changed to the verbal expression in 1998 The study indicated developmental clue of children's expression of views.