A study on "projet" in ecole primaire and "hurere de vie de classe" in college in France

2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 13610314
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educaion
• Research Institution: Bunri University of Hospitality
• Principal Investigator: ARAI Asahiro Bunri University of Hospitality, associate professor, サービス経営学部, 助教授 (80269357)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ASH Robert Tohoku Gakuin University, lecturer, 教養学部, 講師 (90275602) ; TAKAHASHI Katsumi Saga University, associate professor, 文化教育学部附属教育実践総合センター, 助教授 (10314030) ; YAMADA Maki Sugiyama Gakuin University, associate professor, 人間関係学部, 助教授 (30329643)
• Project Period (FY): 2001 – 2003
• Keywords: Citizenship Education / Special Activity / Class Activity / Civic Education / Project Work / Education in France

Research Abstract

As a result of field survey, questionnaires to academies and literature review, we figured out the structure and the real picture of practices of education for citizenship in French school education. We realized that France introduces various approaches of namely citizenship education in order not only for national and regional awareness and stress for cultural and linguistic identity in time with European unification, but also for solution for collapses of social order and social inferiority as many advanced countries face. By observing class activities and interviewing to staffs in elementally schools, colleges and Lycee, we grasped each activity and found their problems of cross-curricular study, civic education, class activity, school project, some of which are collaboration with local community and so on.
We have published the details of our field surveys in two volumes of research reports. We also presented these outcomes in the annual meetings of, the Japanese Society of Curriculum Studies (Takasuke Muto and Aashiro Arai-Curriculum Development of Citizenship Education in France-July 6, 2003), the Japanese Society of Comparative Education (Takasuke Muto and Aashiro Arai-Towards International Comparison of School Guidance and Values Education - Japan, US, UK, France and Germany-June 29, 2002) and Societe franco-japonaise des Sciences de l'Education (Maki Yamada, Noriko Suzuki and Takasuke Muto-Citizenship Education in Franc with focus on partnership between school and local community. Finally we published the final report of this project including six pieces of thesis and appendixes.