2019 Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 315-322
The landscape restoration research of medieval manor / village started in 1980s as urgent investigation of wide-area paddy site associated with the field improvement projects. However, the traditional method of investigation is facing difficulty due to the increasingly aging informants and depopulation. While at the same time, high school/junior high school social studies teachers who have been playing important roles in the regional history study are deprived of the opportunities to engage in regional history study due to today’s increasingly busy school site.
This report introduces a practice of “grassroots history” that aims at fostering school teachers toEngage in the next-generation regional history study, which in specifically the investigation/photography of historical materials/cultural properties conducted each year in the course of “historical practice” and of writing graduation/master’s theses at Social Studies Department, Faculty of Education, Kanazawa University. We hope this report would be an opportunity to think about the regional history study and history (social studies) education in the future.
