The concept of Global Agora Network and its organizing methodology

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24653138
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: TSUDA Eiji 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 准教授 (30314454)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MATSUOKA Koji 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (10283847) ; ITO Atsushi 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (20223133) ; HOUNOKI Kaoru 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (60106010) ; SUEMOTO Makoto 神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (80162840)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: グローバル・アゴラ・ネットワーク / 共生 / インクルージョン / プラットフォーム / ボランティア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A booklet named "Platform of People and Information" in which the data of action research fields as network pivots were arranged and were give meaning by two articles was published. Also data of international and domestic practices were corrected by means of visiting and interviewing. France and Korea as oversea research fields and Tokyo, Chiba, Toyama, Kumamoto, Kagoshima and Kobe as domestic were focused. These research projects found out the possibility to develop the concept of Global Agora Network especially in the practicies established by volunteer citizens, which were performed as cafes as platforms of people and information.

Free Research Field

社会教育論、障害共生支援論