著者
池谷 美衣子
出版者
日本公民館学会
雑誌
日本公民館学会年報 (ISSN:1880439X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.15, pp.59-66, 2018-12-10 (Released:2019-04-04)

The purpose of this paper is to examine a new concept of Kominkan by introducing the practices of a Kominkan that is managed, not by a public body, but by a non-profit organization (NPO). This NPO, Creative Support Let’s, is locally based and although it promotes social change and the participation in society of persons with disabilities it calls itself a “Kominkan”.In this paper, the purpose of and the process by which the Kominkan was established are introduced as well as the content of its activities and the childhood experiences of and general perceptions towards Kominkan held by its staff. Two distinctive characteristics were pointed out based on this information. First, unlike public Kominkan, this “private” Kominkan understands the elasticity of its local area and sees residents not as “people who reside here” but as “people who have needs”. Secondly, this private Kominkan is a place that welcomes all people who live in the area, not necessarily those who come with a purpose.For these reasons, this NPO, whose mission, “to make a society in which a variety of people come together”, is limited and has been only partially realized, still calls itself a Kominkan because of its public nature.Just as Kominkan were conceived as “schools of democracy” after World WarII, in order to develop a modern and a new concept of Kominkan, it will be necessary to draw up concrete images of what is “local” and what is “society” that embody the values that those involved hope to realize.
著者
池谷 美衣子 冨永 貴公
出版者
日本社会教育学会
雑誌
社会教育学研究 (ISSN:21883521)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.54, pp.13-23, 2018 (Released:2020-12-04)
参考文献数
18

This paper aims to clarify the significances of women’s learning at kominkans (community learning centers) within the current context of women learners at Kunitachi City Kominkan (Tokyo, Japan). Among developments such as the United Nations’ International Women’s Year (1975), Decade for Women (1976-85), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ratified by the Japanese government (1985), the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing (1995), and the Basic Act for a Gender Equal Society enacted as the first comprehensive legislation for anti-sexism in Japan (1999), women’s learning at kominkans has been continuously deployed until the present. The stagnation of this learning indicates, however, it’s significance for women learners has still been unquestionably maintained even in different forms. Learners indicate that the kominkans are significant in the following three ways: (1)“making an inventory of life” according to their life stages; (2) creating connections among women within the local community over generations; and (3) questioning their working and family life by expanding kominkan’s topical seminar room into the whole of their everyday life.
著者
池谷 美衣子
巻号頁・発行日
2013

筑波大学博士 (教育学) 学位論文・平成25年2月28日授与 (甲第6356号)