2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Education for Social Justice in East Asia: Perceptions and Practices in Public Schools
| Project/Area Number |
19K14096
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 09010:Education-related
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
Chen Sicong 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院, 准教授 (80733162)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | citizenship education / social justice / Japan / China |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research empirically examined and compared how social justice is interpreted in citizenship education in Japan and China. It developed a three-dimensional framework of social justice for education discourse analysis. It analyzed official policies, national curriculum guidelines and government-authorized textbooks. It also interviewed Chinese schoolteachers.
The research found that both cases similarly stop short of promoting comprehensive, transformative and global social justice education. The research also found that justice outweighs injustice in the Chinese discourse. It argued that the positive construction enables the party-state to manipulate social consensus and manufacture depoliticized, individualized and authoritarian citizenship. The research proposes that education for social justice should be oriented as education against social injustice.
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| Free Research Field |
citizenship education
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
This research seems to be the first in the field that takes a direct and comparative look at citizenship education for social justice in Japan and China. It sends a clear and compelling message that education for social justice should be oriented as education against social injustice.
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