Inheritance of Japanese culture, cultural identity and educational support in three generations of intercultural families

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13210
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Saitama Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Kazuyo 埼玉学園大学, 人間学部, 客員教授 (40261218)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 国際結婚家族 / 文化的アイデンティティ / 文化・言語の継承 / 教育支援 / 親子三世代 / 縦断的研究 / フィールドワーク / インドネシア：日本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This was part of a longitudinal study that was started in the early 1990s. The present study aimed to clarify the inheritance of language and culture as well as the cultural identity formation of intercultural families. The participants were three generations of Japanese-Indonesian families living in Indonesia, namely Japanese women married to Indonesian men (the first generation), their children (the second generation) and grandchildren (the third generation). Semi-structured Interviews and participants observations were mainly employed. The results showed the inheritance of Japanese language and colure as well as cultural identity formation in three generations. Furthermore, the educational support for the second and the third generation of Japanese-Indonesian families were discussed.

Free Research Field

異文化間心理学 発達社会心理学 異文化間教育学