問題としての公害教育研究

―2009-2024―

抄録

  In the 20th anniversary commemorative issue, Asaoka (2009) pointed out the need to envision “environmental education as post-pollution education” as “local/community-building studies” while learning from the experience of pollution education (PE). In response, Ando (2009) expressed discomfort with the discourse that positions PE as the “prehistory” of environmental education (EE) and perceives PE as a known subject. Ando argued that research on PE itself must be advanced in the future. Subsequently, in the 2010s, interest in PE gradually expanded within JSEE, and the first special issue in JJEE on PE was published in 2015. The background to this was the growing concern over pollution issues due to the Tohoku earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear accident (2011), as well as the establishment of the Pollution Museum Network (2013) connecting pollution museums built nationwide. The “PE Research Committee” was established within JJEE in 2016, and it has been accumulating research meetings in collaboration with the Pollution Museum Network. Since then, by the end of 2019, 14 research meetings have been held, discussing various topics surrounding pollution education. In 2021, Pollution Studies: Agony, Sorrow, Struggles, and Handing Down was published as the result of these research meetings. A thorough review of the history of PE research is now necessary. Within this task, there is a need to deepen the discussion on issues such as what PE is, what research on PE entails, how to preserve materials related to PE research, and what the challenges of PE research are.