The theme of the 2014 annual research project was what sort of perspectives in Intercultural Education Research should be taken to interact with practice and change within the actual situations in the field. Two questions drove our research: “how does Intercultural Education research look at and consider of the concept of practices?” and “how can those perspectives change fields?” At the symposium we tried to consider the same practice from three perspectives in diverse fields: multicultural early childhood education, human rights education, and research in NPOs. The themes of the four presentations were as follows:
(1) Yazawa, Etsuko: A Report on Yamato Pre–school “Nihongo Hiroba”: Preschool Education for Children and Support for their Parents with Different Language Backgrounds
(2) Yamada, Chiaki: Considering Intercultural Education Generated through the Interaction of Theory and Practice: From the Viewpoint of the Articulation between Pre–School Education and Elementary School Education
(3) Tabuchi, Isoo: What Sort of “Look” is Needed to Move Educational Situation from the Perspective of Human Rights Education
(4) Notsu, Takashi: The Process of “Field Generated Research” by the Participation in NPO
The results show the possibility of a new formulation of intercultural education with field–generated knowledge by the interaction with diverse perspectives.
