2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study of technological development and education as design of a social system
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15500596
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Science education
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| Research Institution | Daito Bunka University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWATOKO Yasuko Daito Bunka Univ., Literature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90119412)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | Technological development / innovation / design of social systems / socio-technological configuration / The Lona-term Care Needs Certification / techno-scientific approach / 要介護認定 / テクノ・サイエンス |
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| Research Abstract |
This research demonstrates that the technological developments and innovations are always accompanied with the design of social systems, through the analyses of socio-technical reconfiguration of communities of practice such as the repair technicians' community and the well-being project developed by municipality in Finland and Japan. Also, it evaluates newly introduced elderly care system in Japan and its technologies from techno-scientific points of view, focusing on the technology of "The Long-term Care Needs Certification" and its network of inscriptions.
These researches are mainly analyzed in terms of how people give new social meanings to a new technology as it is introduced in their community, and then how the new technology plays a part in reorganizing social relations among various human and non-human actors in the community.
The findings imply that there might be big difference in contents and performances of technology-learning, depending on what the socio-technological configurations of learning environment are, in other words, what the networks of teacher, technicians, tools, policies and new-old technologies are, under which students are educated.
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