| Project/Area Number |
18530507
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
NIIKURA Ryoko Chiba University, Center for International research and Education, Professor (70251155)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Keywords | intercultural acceptance / community members / foreign children and their families |
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| Research Abstract |
While the proportion remains small, the number of people of foreign nationality living in Japan is steadily increasing. As foreign workers increasingly settle, the education of foreign children is rapidly becoming major issues.
Given that the human relations built by foreign children and their families in the host country arise not only in the schools that they attend but are also formed through contact and interaction with various people, particularly in the local community that is the arena of daily life, majority of the host society may need to be considered in terms of the members of the local community who accept them and their families, not limited to the members encountered in the school environment.
The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that define the intercultural acceptance attitudes of majority members accepting foreign children and their families by focusing on the psychological processes that occur in intercultural situations-i. e., how majority members of the host society perceive the behavior of foreign children and their families who have different cultural and ethnic backgrounds from their own, how they feel about such behavior, how they respond to it.
A field survey consisting of interviews with local residents and school teachers was conducted in areas in which foreign students and their families live in Japan and the intercultural acceptance attitudes of community members including schools was analyzed.
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