著者
村松 灯 田中 智輝 岩坂 尚史
出版者
東京大学大学院教育学研究科
雑誌
東京大学大学院教育学研究科紀要 (ISSN:13421050)
巻号頁・発行日
no.56, pp.223-232, 2017-03-31

The purpose of this article is to argue for the importance of dealing with controversial issues in citizenship education. This develops through examining the thoughts of Jacques Rancière's, one of the most famous radical democrats, focusing especially on his idea of "Dissensus." On controversial issues in citizenship education, there have been a number of studies in Japan since 1960's, and many of those have agreed to think it helpful for development of student's political literacy to recognize controversial issues or to try to reach an agreement on them. These arguments tend to implicitly assume that we should and are able to reach a reasonable consensus on each of the issues. Nowadays, however, radical democrats criticize such assumption because consensus in fact inevitably hides decisive differences among people, and they also argue that it is the very impossibility of reaching consensus on controversial issues that constitutes politics fundamentally. This article redefines the controversial issues referring to an important radical democracy theory, namely Rancière's. First of all, we try to make it clear what Rancière means by "dissensus." Then, we examine a social studies' class in Ochanomizu Elementary School, in which "dissensus" seemed to occur. Lastly, we explore how the idea of "dissensus" can change existing views on citizenship education, and hence on politics.