2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIC EDUCATION
Project/Area Number |
18520022
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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Research Institution | Osaka Prefecture University |
Principal Investigator |
KAMEKI Makoto Osaka Prefecture University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor (20244618)
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Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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Keywords | civic education / citizenship / publicness / 公共性 |
Research Abstract |
This research aims at considering elements ofcitizenship the problem of the citizenship education. According to Hannah Arendt, man's indivuduality is realized in the public sphere, which is composed of citizens regarded as an free and equal beings. Subsequently, the state of the education which brings up man as a citizen was examined, comparing the civics of a junior high school in Japan with the citizenship education of college in France. In France, the lesson of citize nship education is performed for 1 hour per week for four years in college, and the knowledge and skill for livin g as a citizen are thoroughly raised according to a student's development and capability. It makes a point of the virtue of civility which esteems each other as an equal citizen, and especially of the skill of determining things by argument. The civic education of college in France is quite different from the civics of a junior high school in Japan, which is got through in a year at the third year. In the citizenship education of France which considers human rights to be a democratic foundation, the judicial system is taught at length, which shows clearly the purpose of teaching students that democracy is supported by human rights which are protected by administration of justice. Some problems become clear in this research: 1. the civics of a junior high school in Japan which is carried out in only one year, is not sufficient for the training of deciding things through a debate 2. the civics of a junior high school in Japan can't be so organaized that students accumulate required knowledge and skill gradually and master them according to their development.
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Research Products
(2 results)