A study of transformation of intercultural perspective of JICA volunteer teachers

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24653251
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Naruto University of Education
• Principal Investigator: ONO Yumiko 鳴門教育大学, 大学院学校教育研究科, 教授 (20177273)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MAEDA Mitsuko 大阪女学院大学, 国際・英語学部, 教授 (70454668) ; NAKAMURA Satoshi 広島大学, 平和・国際室, 研究員 (50524443)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 青年海外協力隊 / 異文化感受性発達モデル / 異文化理解 / 現職教員特別参加制度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims at exploring how the perspective of cultures transform when teachers have lived in a different culture. The study used questionnaire survey, site visit and interviews and a focus group interview in two year period to analyze the process of their perspective transformation.
As a result, it was revealed that many teachers were at the stage of ethnocentrism. The teachers in our study moved toward ethnorelativism as time passed, but their transition was not linear but shifted back and forth between development stages. The study suggested that some factors such as existence of role model, language proficiency and expectation from a counterpart had an influence over perspective transformation.

Free Research Field

異文化間教育