2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Social resources of Japanese Supplementary class, and socio-cultural cognitive develoment of Japanese and Non-Japanese children

Research Project

Project/Area Number	11610135
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	教育・社会系心理学
Research Institution	Kokugakuin University
Principal Investigator	SAITO Kozue Kokugakuin University, Arts, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (70146736)
Project Period (FY)	1999 – 2000
Keywords	socio-cultural cognition / non-Japanese children / Japanese class / globalization / multi culturalization / co-construction
Research Abstract	This study investigated the socio-cultural cognitive development of Japanese and foreign children within Japanese society which is recently internationalized and multi culturalized. The theoretical key concept is "co-construction" of interactional processes and outcomes. In everyday joint activity, both side of people and the situation itself are recreated. Foreign children are helped by social resources of competent Japanese persons in culturally situated activity. We analyzed and connected the observational video data to the interviewing data. One of the important implications of the results is that social resources are not only provided by competent side, but foreign children actively allot it to themselves.

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