Professional Knowledge and Assessment of Professionalism in a Multicultural Society

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381014
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: SUGISAWA MICHIKO 東京外国語大学, 世界言語社会教育センター, 研究員 (50647740)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): YAMANISHI Yuji 早稲田大学, 文学学術員・教授 (50210498)
• Research Collaborator: KIKUCHI Akiyoshi ; KITAMURA Yuto ; KOYAMA Shinichiro ; TAKAYANAGI Kayo ; NARA Masami ; NII Midori ; MATSUOKA Marie ; MIYAZAWA Chizumi
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 多文化社会コーディネーター / 専門職 / 省察 / 実践知 / 認定

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims at establishing an accreditation system for the “Multicultural Society Coordinator”, which approaches problem solving arising from the condition of an increasingly multicultural society in Japan. Firstly, we analyzed the nature of Multicultural Society Coordinators’ intellectual ability results from the “tacit knowledge” and revealed the fact that “practical intelligence” developed through the process of their actions, should be examined. Moreover, as for determination of their professionalism, we sorted out a four element classification of targets of practical intelligence: 1) knowledge, 2) skill, 3) attitude, and 4) philosophy/will and also showed the framework of the professional intelligence assessment.
Furthermore, we carried out the provisional qualification assessment to examine our conditional framework effectively functions and in conclusion, the study proposed the approach of the Multicultural Society Coordinator Accreditation System.

Free Research Field

多文化社会専門人材論、多文化共生事業論