Basic Research on the possibilities of the establishment of Intercultural Education as an independent field of Academic Study.

本研究的目的是寻找跨文化教育作为一个独立的学术研究领域的趋势和可能性。具体地说，1.整合和整理跨文化教育研究各个领域的研究成果，并考察它们之间相互关系的理论框架。通过对这一框架工作的分析，考察迄今为止收集到的关于跨文化教育的信息和技术的系统性。明确跨文化教育理论的各个领域，如教育学、心理学、语言学、人类学、传播学之间的密切关系。本研究的目的不仅在于阐明跨文化教育理论的理论意义，也在于阐明该理论的实践意义。今年，也就是这个为期三年的计划项目的最后一年，我的目标是在整理和整理第一年以来收集的所有数据的同时，对国际教育理论的变化进行系统化。在对收集的数据进行分析的基础上，我计划继续整理和整合跨文化教育各个领域的研究成果，如留学回国儿童教育、留学生教育、跨文化理解教育、日语教育、外籍人士子女教育等。在此框架基础上建立重要文献书目目录。这项研究的成果以以下两种形式提供给与上述主题有关的任何人：(A)这一研究领域的注释书目(数据库)；(B)包括15篇论文的总研究成果的最后报告(1999年3月出版)。

The aim of this research is to look for the trend towards and possibilities of the establishment of Intercultural Education as an independent field of Academic Study.In concrete terms,1. To integrate and put in order the results of research done across the varied fields of Intercultural Education Research, and to examine the theoretical framework for their mutual relationships.2. To examine the systemization of the information and techniques gathered until the present about Intercultural Education through the analysis of this framework work.3. To make clear the closeness of the relationships of the varied fields of Intercultural Education Theory ; such as Educational Studies, Psychology, Linguistics, Anthropology, and Communication Theory.4. This research also aims to equally make clear not only the theoretical significance of Intercultural Education Theory, but also the practical significance of this theory.In this year, which falls on the final year of this planned three-year project, I aim to systemise the changes in International Education Theory as I compile and order all the data collected since year one.1. Based on the analysis of this data collection, I plan to continue the arrangement and integration of the results of research into each in these various fields of Intercultural Education, such as Overseas-Returning Children Education, Foreign Student Education, Education for Intercultural Understanding, Japanese Language Education, Education of Foreign Nationals' Children, etc.2. To create a Bibliographical list of important Literature based on this framework.3. The creation and improvement of a framework geared towards a database of the compiled data.The results of this research are made available in the following tow forms to anyone who is concerned with the above subjects : (a) an annotated bibliography of this field of research (database) ; (b) a final report of the overall research outcome which includes 15 papers (published in March, 1999).