Education for Social Justice in East Asia: Perceptions and Practices in Public Schools
Project/Area Number |
19K14096
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Basic Section 09010:Education-related
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Research Institution | Kyushu University |
Principal Investigator |
陳 思聡 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院, 准教授 (80733162)
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2019)
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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)
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Keywords | social justice education / citizenship education / public schools / East Asia / 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?
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Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This project aims to investigate how social justice is interpreted and how social justice education is framed and practiced in East Asian contexts. In the first year, I conducted, firstly, an extensive literature review of social justice theories and research on social justice education and, secondly, a comparative study about social justice education in Japan and China. I also presented a paper based on the study at an international conference in August 2019. An updated version of the paper is currently under review by an international journal.
I was able to carry out two fieldworks in this year. In the first fieldwork, I visited two public lower secondary schools in Taiwan, one of which featured education policy and practice that meet the purpose of this research and thus I plan to conduct further fieldwork in the second year. In the second fieldwork, I visited one public secondary school and interviewed a number of schoolteachers from several schools in China.
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Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
In this year I was able to accomplish a solid literature review, a conference presentation, an academic article, two overseas fieldworks, all of which were in the original plan. But due to the coronavirus outbreak since early 2020, I was unable to conduct more overseas fieldwork to further collect data in the last months of this fiscal year.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Because of the ongoing travel control due to the coronavirus outbreak, it is uncertain whether and when I can continue my overseas fieldwork in the second year. Also, because of the disruption brought by the outbreak to schools in Japan, it is uncertain when I can start my fieldwork in Japanese public schools. I will resume overseas and domestic fieldworks once conditions allows, while continuing to update the review of relevant literature.
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Research Products
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