長野県における地域課題解決の取組を社会教育活動と社会教育労働の視点から考察する

抄録

I have been working as a social education expert and employee of Nagano Prefecture for 5 years. From this position, I have observed and surveyed efforts to solve regional problems throughout the prefecture and the work and other activities of those who support these efforts from the perspective of social education activities and social education labor.

The subjects who were observed and surveyed were staff of the M Village Kominkan, staff of the Nagano Prefecture Longevity Social Development Center, and staff of the E City Council of Social Welfare. Although these organizations do not fall within the realm of public social education institutions and social education labor, interviews and analysis revealed that these activities also had elements of social education activities and social education labor.

Amidst the corona pandemic which has reached historic proportions, various problems in Japanese society have come to light. The purpose of this paper is to consider the value of social education activities and the labor these entail as a basis for creating sustainable regions and societies under these social conditions. At the same time, the purpose is also to consider the role of social educators, whose position has been institutionalized since 2020, in the lives of the people they serve.