A Study on Lean-Fare and Youth Education Policy in Denmark: Focusing on the Establishment of Pre-Basic Education

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K02582
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09020:Sociology of education-related
• Research Institution: Daito Bunka University (2022); Gunma University (2020-2021)
• Principal Investigator: TOYOIZUMI Shuji 大東文化大学, 社会学部, 特任教授 (90188813)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: デンマーク / 学習福祉 / 青年教育政策 / 予備的基礎教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Focusing on the establishment of "Preparatory Basic Education (FGU)" (August 2018), I have researched the present development of "learn-fare" and youth education policies in Denmark since the 1990s, and explored the differences between Danish "learn-fare" and the "work-fare" based on Anglo-American neoliberalism. During this period, neo-liberal educational policies were also progressing in Japan, and young people who were in the process of transition from school to work were involved in disparities and divisions. In a book I published lately, I contrasted Danish youth education policies with the situations of young people in Japan, and discussed the differences “between Japan and Denmark”

Free Research Field

教育社会学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近年のデンマークはもっぱら「幸福の国」として語られるが，その「幸福」がどのようにもたらされたのか，新自由主義の道をたどった日本とどのように異なるのかについて，学術的に論じられることはあまりない。本研究の成果は，デンマークにおける「学習福祉」と青年教育政策の展開からその点を明らかにした点で，学術的に有意義であったと考える。「新自由主義からの脱去」が政治的にも唱えられるようになった昨今，本研究は，オルタナティブな政策モデルを具合的に提示した点で，社会的にも有意義であったと考える。