Roundtable Reports
The Mainstream of Liberal Education 4:
The Textbook “The Public” Used in High School and Some Avenues to Dialogic Learning
2023 Volume 45 Issue 2 Pages 139-144
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2023 Volume 45 Issue 2 Pages 139-144
Through lessons of liberal education, we learn about some problems which have more than one answer. And we recognize that there is more than one right answer. To discuss these problems, liberal education requires a dialogue with others and a multidisciplinary perspective. How do we introduce to liberal education a deliberative democracy which has much dialogue with others?
In Japan, the word ‘Society’ has two meanings. One is ‘SYAKAI’ and the other is ‘SEKEN’. SEKEN is difficult to translate from Japanese into English. In Japan, SEKEN has more influence than SYAKAI. We see a difference between ‘The Individual in SYAKAI’ and ‘The Individual in SEKEN’. And we see a difference between ‘The Public in SYAKAI’ and ‘The Public in SEKEN’. The contradictions lead to dialogic learning in liberal education.
