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Education for Social Justice in East Asia: Perceptions and Practices in Public Schools

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K14096
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 09010:Education-related
Research InstitutionKyushu University

Principal Investigator

Chen Sicong  九州大学, 人間環境学研究院, 准教授 (80733162)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywordscitizenship education / social justice / Japan / China / East Asia / Taiwan / Asia / official discourse / justice and injustice / politics / social justice education / public schools / education policy / education practice / educational discourse
Outline of Research at the Start

This comparative research provides empirical evidence on education for social justice in schools in Japan, China and Taiwan. It explores two key questions: What are teachers’ perceptions of social justice? What are the objectives, approaches, strategies, and challenges about teaching social justice?

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research empirically examined and compared how social justice is interpreted in citizenship education in Japan and China. It developed a three-dimensional framework of social justice for education discourse analysis. It analyzed official policies, national curriculum guidelines and government-authorized textbooks. It also interviewed Chinese schoolteachers.
The research found that both cases similarly stop short of promoting comprehensive, transformative and global social justice education. The research also found that justice outweighs injustice in the Chinese discourse. It argued that the positive construction enables the party-state to manipulate social consensus and manufacture depoliticized, individualized and authoritarian citizenship. The research proposes that education for social justice should be oriented as education against social injustice.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

This research seems to be the first in the field that takes a direct and comparative look at citizenship education for social justice in Japan and China. It sends a clear and compelling message that education for social justice should be oriented as education against social injustice.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 4 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Educating for social justice in contemporary China: the politics of justice and injustice2021

    • Author(s)
      Chen, Sicong
    • Journal Title

      Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

      Volume: online first Issue: 4 Pages: 1-15

    • DOI

      10.1080/01596306.2021.1885347

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The official discourse of social justice in citizenship education: A comparison between Japan and China2020

    • Author(s)
      Chen, Sicong
    • Journal Title

      Education, Citizenship and Social Justice

      Volume: online first Issue: 3 Pages: 1-14

    • DOI

      10.1177/1746197920971811

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Citizenship and Social Justice Education in Japan and China2022

    • Author(s)
      Sicong Chen
    • Organizer
      第11回 公州大学校師範大学-九州大学教育学部 国際学術フォーラム
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Education for Social Justice in Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Sicong Chen
    • Organizer
      International Symposium for Emerging Scholars in Education, East China Normal University
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Deconstructing the Discourse of Social Justice in Japanese and Chinese Citizenship Education2021

    • Author(s)
      Chen, Sicong
    • Organizer
      Webinar on Citizenship and Social Justice Education in Asia
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「社会正義」の意味:シティズンシップ教育の公的な言説の分析から2021

    • Author(s)
      Chen, Sicong
    • Organizer
      日本シティズンシップ教育研究大会シンポジウム 「複数性」から問うシティズンシップ教育 ―日本における実践課題を考える―
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Citizenship Education for Social Justice in Japan and China: Discourse and Politics2021

    • Author(s)
      Chen, Sicong
    • Organizer
      Webinar Series at the Department of Educational Administration and Policy, CUHK
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Official Discourse of Social Justice in Citizenship Education: A Comparison between Japan and China2019

    • Author(s)
      Sicong Chen
    • Organizer
      World Education Research Association 2019: Focal Meeting in Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Funded Workshop] Sub-regional Workshop on a Common Curriculum for Peace Education in Northeast Asia2023

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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