Studies on contemporary issues of "school socialization" : Focusing on the institutionalized way of understanding children

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25285238
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: KITAZAWA TAKESHI 立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (10224958)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 有本 真紀 立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (10251597) ; 間山 広朗 神奈川大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (50386489)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KUREBAYASHI Nobuyuki 常葉大学, 大学院・初等教育高度実践研究科, 教授 (40262068) ; TSURUTA Maki 創価大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60554269)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 教育社会学 / 歴史社会学 / 相互行為分析 / 構築主義 / 学校的社会化 / いじめ / 児童 / 個性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have been studying the “school socialization”, which is our original concept for many years. This concept means the process where infants grow up to be elementary school students in modern Japanese society, since Meiji era. In this study, we especially focus on how the institutionalized way of understanding children has been developed from the point of social constructionism, which we regard children as not real existence but socially constructed in the process of teachers’ daily practice of teaching and evaluating them.
Our research project consists of three empirical studies. We have video-taped and analyzed teacher-students interaction in everyday school life. We also collected historical school documents of pre 2th world war periods such as academic and other personal records from elementary schools. The last thing we focused on is the negative aspect of understanding children. We approached a case of bullying suicide and analyzed this case.

Free Research Field

教育社会学