Experiment toward Social Inclusion through Farmland Recovery Activities - Action research in Terraced Paddy Field Area in a Suberb of Osaka

基于创造就业机会应有助于解决社会问题的想法，我开始了一项行动研究，与无家可归的老年劳动者和就业援助企业家一起实施农田恢复项目。通过与学员的访谈和讨论，阐明了该项目的意义和今后需要解决的一些新问题。农场劳动作为失业青年就业援助培训，可以有效地提高学员的自尊心，并使他们的个性和能力形象化。无家可归的老年劳工有时带领年轻的受训者。然而，如果我们不考虑农业劳动力的本质，这个项目最终将使年轻的受训者适应目前的就业环境。我们需要在农业科学和社会福利研究之间建立联系。

Based on an idea that job opportunity creation should go toward a solution of a social problem, I started an action research which attemps a farmland recovery project with homeless eldery laborers and employment assistance enterpreneurs. Interviews and discussions with participants elucidated the significance of this project and some new problems to be solved later on. Farmworks as training in employment assistance for jobless youths can effectively highten their self esteem of the trainees and also visualize their characteristics and aptitudes. The homeless eldery laborers sometimes lead the young trainees. However, unless we consider the essence of agricultural labor, this project will end up in adapting the young trainees to the present employment environment. We need a linkage between the science of agriculture and social welfare studies.