TOPICS

• The Human Transformation Study (HTS) is a research field that explores the diversity of change and transformation throughout human life. In addition to conducting studies on education from viewpoints of philosophy and history of thought as theoretical research, we also conduct field researches using methods such as interview, participant observation, and "Ethnometry" as practical research.
• In FY2019, we attempted to measure and analyze the effects of practice at mother and child protection facilities and nursing homes using the newly developed "ethnometry method" for measuring behavior from the viewpoint of the practitioners. In the future, we plan to gradually expand the survey target while brushing up this measurement method. From FY2020 onward, we are in the process of brushing up this measurement method and gradually expanding the survey targets. I have been involved in the joint research project "Practical Development of Moral Education Methods to draw out Various Sensitivities by Applying Staging Techniques to Questioning and Role-playing" (PL.: Rengyo) (JSPS) as sub-researcher, and I am currently working on a joint research project ntiteled "Verification of the Usefulness and Validity of the Ethonometry Method through its Application to the Analysis of Moral Education Classes" (PL. Nobuo Fujikawa)(JSPS).

NEWS

28. May 2021

Prof. Noriyuki Yamauchi (Kobe Women's University), who is one of my junior colleagues, has published a book entitled "A Collection of Slightly Unusual Principal's Ceremonial Speeches: Messages from a Philosopher of Education" (Ichigeisha). He comes from a field that is often thought to be the furthest away from the practice of educational philosophy, and I think how happy the students at schools with such "unusual" principal are. I hope you will read this book.

May 2021

Akiko Kamimoto (stage actress/workshop designer) has joined our staff as a specially appointed researcher. She is working on a joint research project related to the UNESCO Chair.

29. April 2020

The site (English version) has been opened.

1. April 2020

The site (Japanese version) has been opened.

March 2020

It was decided that the paper of Shunsuke Takada (Assistant Professor, Joetsu University of Education), "Stimulation and Juvenile Education Practice and" Educational" will be publisched in the 9th issue of "Human Education and Well-being Studies" (Academic Journal of Japanese Society of Education and Well-being).

March 2020

Nobuo Fujikawa's thesis, "Possibility of using Goffman's theory for educational research and educational practice: Based on recent trends in Goffman research" was published as "18th Series of Currently Educational Research" in "The Japanese Journal of Educational Research", Vol. 87, Issue 1.

November 2019

Nobuo Fujikawa's paper "Positioning Educational Philosophy within Evidence-based Education: What Becomes Visible if We Refer Back to Evidence-based Medicine?" was published in Vol. 120 of "Studies in the Philosophy of Education" (Academic Journal of the Philosophy of Education Society of Japan).