メディア制作を通じた子どもの「地域とのつながり」認識の変容に関する研究

福島県富岡町の小学生による実践事例から

抄録

In this study, elementary school students attending a temporary school, set up at an evacuation site due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and associated nuclear accident (3.11), have “temporal and synchronous connections” with their roots in the area through media production activities. These connections clarify the process of transforming cognition.

The parties to the 3.11 evacuation are still seeking two “connections”: “inheriting the memory of the area” and “connecting with the people in the area”, and that desire is also directed at the children living at the evacuation site. On the other hand, the current child, who has no memory of 3.11, is not aware that he or she belongs to the same community as the 3.11 party, and others unilaterally imposing party membership may even be a stigma.

In order to overcome this dilemma, we hypothesize that it is important for children to recognize the “connections” between themselves and the community from their own perspective, and to go to a temporary school building set up by Tomioka Town in Fukushima Prefecture at the evacuation site. We practiced video production with fifth graders and qualitatively analyzed the statements in the practice using the qualitative data analysis method, SCAT.

As a result, the children who practiced were able to: highlight questions and unclear points, listen to the opinions of others based on them, self-interpret them, link them with their own experiences, and reflect on their own experiences and memories. It became clear that the representation was done by mixing it with the students’ own thoughts and ideas. This series of processes made it possible for students to find their positions in the history of Tomioka Town and the local community, that is, the process of media production practice changed the practitioner’s perception of “connections” with the community.