2014 Volume 12 Pages 6-13
Practical research is for me, a day-to-day activity of thinking about educational practices and the participants; thinking about Japanese language learning, education, and teachers; thinking about language, culture, and society; and furthermore, thinking about people, the world, myself, and life, through an analysis of my own classroom activities as a practical researcher and as a person, and through a dialogue with others. At the same time, it is an activity for living through educational practices and other day-to-day practices; for creating society, culture and language; and for creating oneself and for changing one's life as a practical researcher and as a person, together with others through language.Also at the same time, by verbalizing educational practice for oneself and others and by having a dialogue with others about one's own (and others') educational practices, we become able to share the educational practices being performed by ourselves (and by others), and educational practices are created independently and cooperatively with others. For me, practical study opens up a path to holding a dialogue with others and to creating a society with others.If Japanese language education practitioners, against the backdrop of each of their independent and valuable experiences, think about what kind of Japanese language education they personally want to provide and develop practical research independently and cooperatively and freely but with responsibility, I believe it will not only create a richer classroom society, but will also open up the world of Japanese language education.
