The purpose of this paper is to visualize models of learning about concepts. The subject of this study
is a learning theory of social science education in Japan.
T. Moriwake, who is the original advocate of it, has developed many lesson plans for applying the
learning theory to a real life. These lesson plans are called “Kyoujusyo” in Japanese. The purpose of his
theory is that students can grasp concepts as social scientists do.
Kyoujusyo has been developed by repeating the experimental lesson. It is clear only about a typical
learning process, not about a typical thinking process on concept learning.
Then, we think that analyzing these plans helps students visualize a process to understand concepts as
a typical thinking model.
In conclusion, it is clear that in concept learning,
(1) these plans’ contents, which are based on scientists’ research, is visualized as the unified model of
the relationship between these concepts.
(2) the process of grasping concepts is to reconstruct and examine the unified model.
(3) the thinking process is divided into two types according to the differences in quality between
these plans’ contents: (a) inductive statistical model (IS-model) ; (b) deductive nomological model
(DM-model).