Community learning and "Re-structuring of life relationships" of youth in a rural area

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06709
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Matsumoto University
• Principal Investigator: MUKAI Ken 松本大学, 総合経営学部, 講師 (50756765)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 農村青年 / 地域学習 / 暮らしの再構築 / 玉井袈裟男 / 風土論 / 断片化 / 協同

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to clarify the history of rural youths' learning movement after the WWⅡ and to organize inherited community learning practice by contemporary rural youth. Especially, I researched for development process of community learning movement by the Rural Culture Association Japan and subsequent community development practice. What I have found are the followings:
1) In order to promote regional development, it is important that ordinary youth living in the rural community become encouraged through participation in community development.
2) In order to overcome the problem of fragmentation of the rural community, It is important to make perspective of "FU-DO" advocated by Kesao TAMAI (leader of community learning movement). “FU-DO” is characteristics of community defined by historical, social and natural factors. By activating these factors, it will be promoted the cooperation between rural community residents.

Free Research Field

社会科学