Philosophical and Environmental Conditions for Accepting Otherness

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870061
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese language education; Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: SEGAWA HAZUKI 関西学院大学, 総合政策学部, 准教授 (30339733)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 他者認識 / 異文化 / グリーン・ツーリズム / 外国人介護士 / 外国人看護師 / 接触場面

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, I interviewed farmers in Senboku city, Akita prefecture, who had successfully accepted foreign tourists' green tourism, and clarified the philosophical factors of their success. As a result of analyzing the interview data, I found their recognition of others which they would like to communicate with others and continue to meet with them because of being heterogeneous from themselves. However, in this recognition, no special weight is given to being foreigners. Willing to communicate with others does not arise from emphasis on specific categories. For future foreign language education and intercultural communication education, it is a new educational subject to nurture these ways of recognizing others.

Free Research Field

日本語教育