Examination of Prevalent Life-Unit Learning in Schools for Students with the Intellectually and Pshyically Disabled in Okinawa : Current All Life-Units being Used in 9 Schools for the Disabled

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to present the current state of problems of prevailing life-units learnig being used for students with the intectually and physically disabled in their schools in Okinawa prefecture. The materials developed as their prevalent teaching materials were collected from 9 schools and examined as to what they are and what they should be when we take a look at them carefully. The results were suggested as follows : (1) A considarable difference was confirmed as regard the quantitative nunmber of life-unit materials in between schools. (2) The number of life-units in schools for the intellectually disabled was more than that in schools for the physically disabled. (3) The nunber of life-units was a significant defference in between shools for the interectually disabled. (4) There were no significant differences as to the number of life-units on scale of the schools. (5) The mean number of life-units to the all 9 schools was 67 on the average.