A Sociological Study on the History of Fathers' Participation in Home Education in Modern Japan

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381151
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: Taga Futoshi 関西大学, 文学部, 教授 (70284461)
• Research Collaborator: YAMAGUCHI Kioto
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 教育社会学 / 家庭教育 / 父親 / ジェンダー / 歴史社会学 / 階層 / 私の履歴書 / 経済人

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Through the analysis of autobiographies, this study clarified the actual situation of home education in modern Japan, looking at fathers’ involvement in that especially. In the previous studies, it was supposed that, as the time went by, the main players of home education had been replaced by mothers from fathers. However, this study has shown that, even mothers’ involvement in home education had increased, fathers had never completely withdrawn from that and been rather actively involved particularly in career guidance, vocational education, intellectual training and moral education until early Showa period. This trend was observed not only in the old-middle class but also in the new-middle class.

Free Research Field

教育社会学