New Development in Educational Anthropology to Connect Traditional Cultures to Education

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06716
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Nagoya Women's University
• Principal Investigator: YASUI Takeshi 名古屋女子大学, 家政学部, 講師 (00758196)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 贈与論 / マルセル・モース / educational anthropology / 教育人類学 / 教育人間学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research project is connecting two fields of educational anthropology: philosophical and ethnological, and developing new educational anthropology using traditional cultures as a key concept. In the process, it was found that educational anthropology is not dichotomized, and it is possible to approach from the four fields at least: biological, philosophical, cultural, and historical. From this point of view, I analyzed research trends of educational anthropology in Japan, and reconsidered Marcel Mauss's concept of “gift exchange.”According to Mauss's intention, educational anthropology enables a new idea to connect traditional cultures and education.

Free Research Field

教育学