Comparative Study on Education and Sustainable Development on Rebuilding and Recovery from Natural Disasters

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590220
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: SUGIMURA Miki 上智大学, 総合人間科学部, 教授 (60365674)
• Research Collaborator: WANG Qun Zhi 西南交通大学, 交通運輸及び物流学院, 教授 ; TAKAHASHI Nozomu 群馬大学, 大学院・教育学研究科教職リーダー講座, 准教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 持続可能な開発のための教育（ＥＳＤ） / レジリエンスと教育 / 復旧・復興と教育 / 教育社会学 / 比較教育学 / 国際研究者交流 / 教育政策 / 社会関係資本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to clarify its affections on community's rebuilding and recovery from national disasters by focusing on the functions of education which can make social capital, resilience and sustainability of a community as a soft power. Comparing the case of post disasters at New Orleans in the USA, South-West Coast of Sri Lanka, Christchurch in New Zealand, Chengdu in China and Fukushima in Japan, it can be pointed out that both school education and non-formal education can take an important role to empower people and to make networks and mutual reliance which are necessary to rebuild and recovery from the disasters. People to people connectivity through education can be a crucial factor to realize a sustainable development community.

Free Research Field

比較教育学・国際教育学