Creation of the Politics of Education

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590186
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Kodama Shigeo 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 教授 (40296760)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 教育政治学 / シティズンシップ教育 / 18歳選挙権 / 公共性 / 政治学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we aimed to innovate grasping the relationships between education and politics through the creation of a new discipline area that has not existed so far, namely the politics of education. Specifically, focusing on education after the world warⅡ, we started a work of historically analyzing why and how education was made depoliticized. Through it, we clarified the conditions under which education could be re-politicized. Then, we revealed the new relationship between education and politics in the era when education is politicized from the viewpoint of the reform of educational administration structure and the restoration of political education based on the reduction of voting rights age to over 18years old.

Free Research Field

教育学