Theoretical study and field research of boundary crossing activity that generates new learn beyond cultural frameworks of existing communities

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K21355
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology; Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Aoyama Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Kagawa Shuta 青山学院大学, 社会情報学部, 准教授 (90550567)
• Research Collaborator: Fujisawa Rie リクルート組織行動研究所
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 活動理論 / 越境 / 学習論 / 創造 / 交換 / マルチチュード / 社会運動 / ポスト資本主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focused on “boundary crossing” that heterogeneous people loosely associate, learn together, and change organizations or social world beyond borders among different communities. We revealed actuality of boundary crossing and developed the practice, and expanded the theory furthermore. Especially we focused on 1) workplace, 2) out of workplace, and 3) social movement and researched them through qualitative interview, conversation analysis, discursive analysis, and action research. Consequently we indicated how new knowledge or relationship is created in the micro process that heterogeneous collective had a dialogue, and some characters of future distributed society constructed by expanding boundary crossing that can replace capitalism. We advanced the theory of boundary crossing or activity theory through integrating their discussion.

Free Research Field

社会科学，教育心理学，社会心理学