Education Matters in the 21st Century: Imagined Future and Starategy of Education

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13214
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Okazaki Women's University
• Principal Investigator: shiraishi saya 岡崎女子大学, 子ども教育学部, 教授 (70288679)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: シリコンバレー / デジタル世代 / スタンフォード大学 / サンフランシスコ / プレスクール教育 / STEM

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The ways people seek information, understand the world, express one's thoughts, and thus communicate each other have changed dramatically. The people, who work at the ICT industry in Silicon Valley, understand more than any other people the possibility and the problem of the digital revolution.
This research was aimed at approaching to the images of the future society they have, and to the educational strategy they employ for their own young children. The outcome was stunning. The new type of ICT economy and work habit in Silicon Valley has already changed the basic values and the life styles. For example, the multi-culturalism is no more the moral value but it is the basic condition for them to create ICT products for the world market, which is multi-cultural. Their products are for human communication. Their success depends on their understanding of humanity, its diversity, and its nature of radical empathy.
Their strategy of children's education follows after their new philosophy.

Free Research Field

文化人類学