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该是为了解决一个社会问题的想法，我开始了一个行动研究，试图与无家可归的老年劳工和就业援助企业家一起实施一个农田恢复项目。与与会者的访谈和讨论阐明了这一项目的意义以及今后需要解决的一些新问题。作为对失业青年的就业援助培训，可以有效地提高他们对受训人员的自尊，并体现他们的特点和能力。无家可归的老年劳工有时会带领年轻的实习生。然而，除非我们考虑农业劳动的本质，否则这个项目最终将使年轻的实习生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.