nuclear energy, nuclear energy education, school education, curriculum
Abstract
The purpose of this article was to introduce about nuclear power education in Japan. In this paper, it
was described the needs and backgrounds of nuclear power education, the contents of nuclear energy
of elementary and secondary school textbooks, and the educational cases of nuclear power at school
education or extraordinary curricular in Japan. The implications of this study were as follow. 1) The
nuclear power education needs an educational system from elementary school to university level. 2) In
service program and supporting system for science teachers and social studies teachers will be adapted
for the nuclear power education. 3) There are also required to educational systems of nuclear power
education for the teachers training universities. 4) The high level specialists of nuclear power were
demanded at university level. And 5) the government and company will have to be concerned with
nuclear power education.