1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Urbanization and Childhood between the First and the Second World War from the comparative historical point of view (Hiroshima and Naha)
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06610244
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TORIMITSU Mioko Hiroshima University, Depertment of Education Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (10155608)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KAKAZU Tomoko Ryukyu University, Department of Education Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1995
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| Keywords | Oral History / Childhood History / Urbanization / Community / Buraku' / Regional History |
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| Research Abstract |
The author and the co-researcher Kakazu have conducted the oral historical research to reconstruct the past chiodhood in Hiroshima and Naha before the World War 2 for more than two years. So far were interviewed 51 informants who were born and/or brought up in Hiroshima and 35 informants who were born and/or brought up in Naha. The oldest informant was born in 1904 and the youngest in 1947, but most informants were born between the 1910's and the early 20's. These interview data show ;
1. that childhood was then under changing prosesses toward 'Verhaeuslichung' ,
2. and that these changes were processing nevertherless not lineal and there were the diffrences in changing processes dependent upon the differences in the districts and social classes of informants.
These were already evident in the results of the research held in the first research year (Torimitsu & Kakazu 1994, Kakazu & Torimitsu 1995, Torimitsu & Kakazu 1995). Therefore in the second research year, the author, who is responsible for the research in Hiroshima, focussed on the districts differennce and interviwed mainly the informants who were born and/or brought up in the two districts in Hiroshima which were infered to have more the ideal characteristics of a community than the other parts of Hiroshima. On the other hand Kakazu, who is responsible for the research in Naha, focussed on the differences of social classes.
A part of the results were published (Torimitu 1996, Kakazu 1996) , but in these papers were mainly discussed the methodological problems and the analisis of the inteview data to reconstruct the past life space as the childeren's social experiences is now processing.
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