Deliberative pedagogy for democratic disagreement

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K22197
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: :Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Nishiyama Kei 同志社大学, 政策学部, 助教 (00876211)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-09-11 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 不一致・対立 / 民主主義教育 / 熟議民主主義 / 合意形成 / メタ・コンセンサス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research project has dealt with two intertwined questions about deliberative pedagogy. One is a theoretical question 'how can disagreement and conflict be situated in deliberative pedagogy?', while another is a practice one 'how can we create a pedagogical environment where students engage in democratic disagreement while doing deliberation in the classroom?'. In the first year, the investigator engaged mainly in a theoretical question through literature reviews, and in the following years he brought the theory into practice. In this process, the investigator pioneered a web-based pedagogical tool called Metanion that enables to visualise the degree to which people disagree with each other and the degree to which they shift their preference by comparing pre- and post-deliberation in the classroom. The investigator introduced this Metanion into many educational settings to realise the disagreement-based deliberative pedagogy.

Free Research Field

教育学、政治学、社会科学、哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では熟議型政治教育における対立・不一致のあり方を中心としながらも、単に対立・不一致で熟議を終わらせるのではなく、対立・不一致の中にあるメタ・コンセンサスの可能性について模索をし、対立・不一致と合意形成がより適切な形で共存できる実践モデルおよびそれのためのツールの開発という成果をもたらした。理論研究にとどまるのではなく、実際の教員が使用できるツールを開発し、それを実装するところまで実現できた点は、本研究の特筆すべき成果であると言える。