| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
LEVY Christine Universite de Bordeaux, Dept.d'Etudes Extreme-Orientales.Section de Japonais, As, 日本学科, 助教授
MARIOTT Helen Monash University, Dept.of Japanese Studies, Associate Professor, 日本研究部, 部長
HOSOKAWA Hideo Waseda University, Center for Research and Teaching of Japanese, Professor, 日本語研究教育センター, 教授 (80103604)
SUNAKAWA Yuichi Gunma University, Dept.of Social and Information, Associate Professor, 社会情報学部, 教授 (90196907)
SASAKI Michiko The National Language Research Institute, Center for Teaching of Japanese as a S, 第二研究室, 室長(研究員) (80178665)
RADKE Kurt W. Leiden University, Dept.of Literature, professor
COOK Haruko M. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dept.of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ass
YUE Kwan Cheuk Chinese University of Hong Kong, Deept. of Japanese Studies, Professor
BEKES Andrej University of Ljubljana, Asian-African Languages and cultures, Director
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| Research Abstract |
Preceding this research, the domestic members of this research group, Hasegawa, Sasaki, Sunakawa, and Hosokawa were engaged in "A research on the Teaching of Nihonjijo (Japanese culture and society) to foreign students" (1992-1993 Monbusho Scientific research Program, Sogo A Project no.04301098). In that project, we made a survey of the actual state of teaching of Nihon-jijo at Japanese colleges and universities. Based on the data collected, a theoreticalphase of the development of teaching of Nihonjijo was pursued.
In this research, we widened our view to outside of Japan, and collected information on the actual practice of teaching of Nihon-jijo (Japanese culture and society) in the world. We tried to cover as many institutions with Japanese
programs as possible. Based on the data we collected, various discussions occured between research members in Japan and outside of Japan, who are in Australia, Hawaii, Slovenia, France, the Netherlands, and HongKong.
As a result, we could clarity various phases of Nihon-jijo. The following are the main points :
The world "nihon-jijo" itself is hard to define and the domain covered by it varies.The word is hardly used outside of Japan.
Teaching of culture and society has different characteristics especially in its philosophy and metholodology depending upon the areas and institutions.
A lot of characteristics which have been pointed out as anecdotal evidences are proved by our survey quantitatively. This gives the foundation to build a qualitative study of Nihonjijo from this time. What is needed from now on is to
formulate the actual content of Nihon-jijo both theoretically and pratically.
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