Current status and future issues based on “Continuity of the Learning” in Education for intellectual disabilities

• Published in: Human Sciences Vol. 4; pp. 10 - 23
• Main Author: Abe, Takanobu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: The Society of the Faculty of Human Sciences, Kyushu Sangyo University 2022; 九州産業大学 人間科学会
• Subjects: Continuity of Learning; education for the intellectually disabled; Inclusive Education System; revision of the Courses of Study for Special Needs Schools; インクルーシブ教育システム; 学びの連続性; 特別支援学校学習指導要領等の改訂; 知的障害教育
• ISSN: 2434-4753
• DOI: 10.32223/hsksu.4.0_10

This paper reviews the 2017 revision of the Courses of Study for Special Needs Schools and the current status of education for the intellectually disabled, which took place for the first time after the Central Council for Education’s Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education’s “Promotion of Special Needs Education for the Construction of an Inclusive Education System Toward the Formation of a Symbiotic Society (Report)” published in July 2012, from the perspective of ensuring “Continuity of Learning”. We reviewed published documents with the aim of examining them from the perspective of ensuring “Continuity of Learning” and clarifying future research issues. As a result, we identified the following three issues for future research in terms of ensuring “Continuity of Learning” in education for intellectual disabilities in the current revision of the Courses of Study for Special Needs Schools. (1) How will the viewpoint-based learning evaluation that conforms to the goals in each subject of education for the intellectually disabled be carried out at each stage of special support schools, and how will the learning evaluation be described? (2) How will you operate the setting of instructional goals based on the three pillars of qualities and abilities to be nurtured in the combined instruction of each subject, etc., which is one of the forms of instruction in education for intellectual disabilities? (3) How will the “Continuity of Learning” in intellectual disability education in the “Treatment of Curricula for Persons with Multiple Disabilities” be applied in each special needs school?