Reconstruction of Educational Reseearch in Developing countries: Integrated approach of area studies and development studies

本研究计划主要有两个组成部分：一是回顾和规划比较教育领域中共存的各种研究范式和实践。第二种是通过将具有不同研究范式的研究者聚集在一起进行实地调查。对于第一部分，进行了问卷调查和已发表文章的分类。第二部分是在马尔代夫和加纳进行的年度实地考察，共有8名学者参加，2003年出版了山田翔子和森下实编辑的《拓展比较教育的视野：多元视角与智力合作》一书（东京：在马尔代夫和加纳的实地工作成果由各自的学者作为学术论文发表，并与教育部共同主办了一个讲习班，2013年，马尔代夫共和国，讨论研究结果。

This research project had mainly two components: one is to review and map out diverse research paradigms and practices which co-exist in the field of comparative education. The second is to conduct fieldwork by grouping researchers with different research paradigms together. For the first component, a questionnaire survey and classification of published articles were conducted. As the second component, annual fieldwork in the Maldives and Ghana were conducted with participation of 8 scholars altogether.An edited volume by Shoko Yamada and Minoru Morishita was published in 2003, with the title "Extending the Horizon of Comparative Education: Diverse Perspectives and Intellectual Collaboration"(Tokyo: Toshindo).The outcomes of the fieldwork in Maldives and Ghana were published by respective scholars as academic papers and a workshop was co-hosted with the Ministry of Education, Republic of Maldives, in 2013, to discuss about the findings from the research.