2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Are Children and Childhood Education Keys to Our Society's Future?: Reexamining the Predominant Discourse by Analyzing Different Discourses in Pre-war Japan
| Project/Area Number |
22730411
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Meiji Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
MOTOMORI Eriko 明治学院大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (60549137)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 教育社会学 / 歴史社会学 / 子ども論 / 教育システム / 社会科 / 年少者保護法 / 言説 / 社会教育 |
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| Research Abstract |
Children and childhood education are believed to be keys to our society. The sociological concept of "socialization" also uses this belief as its theoretical assumption. However, is this image of children a self-evident truth? I rethought the predominant discourse--by analyzing other discourses--to contribute to both sociology and child studies.
In the first three years of this research period, I read the proceedings of the enactment of certain juvenile protection laws--such as the Factory Act, Juvenile Act, and Act for Prohibiting Minors from Drinking in prewar Japan--to find images of the youth that were different from the prevalent ones mentioned above and that were reflected in the educational system in the same period. In the final year, I attempted to draw a different picture of children and society to challenge our common conceptions as well as the dominant academic assumption by conceiving a suitable framework through examining theories on discourse analysis and child studies.
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