2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Theoretical Context and its Transformation of Citizenship Education in U.S. and Japan
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17530556
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | Ochanomizu University |
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Principal Investigator |
KODAMA Shigeo Ochanomizu University, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor (40296760)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | citizenship / the public / Hannah Arendt / education / charter school |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research I focused on the theoretical context and its transformation of citizenship education in U.S. and Japan. Main concern of this research is the relationship between the public and the political. I make it clear how active citizenship is closely connected to the political literacy and political judgment.
Hannah Arendt is the key person to investigate the political element of citizenship. In order to seek this, I focus on Hannah Arendt's critique on Karl Marx in 1953. From her critique on Marx I extract two specific features of Arendt's political thought which have an important implication for the rise(or return) of "the political". One is the relationship between philosophy and politics, and the other is her concept of natality. These two categories give us a key to avoid falling into educational cynicism, and to take a position responsible both for the past and for the future. This point of view is important for rethinking the citizenship education.
In fining so I have bridged two different research fields which had been separately treated. One is the politics of education, and the other is curriculum studies. I also make it possible to clarify the meaning of the New Public which is the key category of recent educational reform in Japan.
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Research Products
(10 results)
