Exploring an "universal" education based an Islam idea: an educational activity of Hizmet movement

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K04687
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUI SHINNOSUKE 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 協力研究員 (70533462)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: ヒズメット / ギュレン / イスラーム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Hizmet schools around the world, based on Islamic thought but mostly secular education, offer the various elite educations for students in the flexible ways,
according to each country's educational system. Their education aims to bridge the gap in every country's educational problems. For emxample, in advanced countries like France, they offer the elite educations for students in "educationally disadvantaged environment", like immigrant ones, who have difficulty to enter the existent high-educational rank. In semi-advanced countries
or in developing ones, like Albania, Georgia, Kosovo, Romania, Cambodia, they offer the high level educations for the local elite students and foreign students. In the national border areas where various cultures interlace, they offer the bottom-up educations by multilingual and plurilingual pedagogy. We clarified many Hizmet educational activities which strive toward the elite and multicultural educations in the same time.

Free Research Field

教育社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

非イスラーム圏のヒズメット運動の教育活動を検討することで、イスラームに関して、マジョリティ側からではなくイスラーム側の視点に立ち、彼らがイスラーム思想に立脚しながらもいかにしてマジョリティの環境を受け入れ、積極的に統合し（され）ようとし、いかにしてイスラームを越えた「普遍的」な価値を追求しようとしているかを明らかにする。その上で、非イスラーム社会において「開かれたイスラーム」を実現する具体的な方策を提示することができた。これはヨーロッパのみならず、今後もっと濃密な形で移民等のマイノリティと関わることになる日本においても重要な示唆を与えることになるだろう。