9　海外の平和教育研究の発展段階―――日本の平和教育学成立への示唆

抄録

Although the academic concern about peace research is high, it cannot be said that the academic concern about peace education is high. The peace education that passes on the war experience and is opposed to any wars has been practiced at school in Japan. However, there is a few writings which tried to systematically analyze peace education from an academic point.

This paper aims to clarify the approach to develop the peace education study in Japan by analyzing the development of peace education research in the world. It defines, “Peace education study is systematization of academic findings concerning various conditions for the development of peace education.”

Four influences of the following factors are acting on the process in which peace education research develops. They are: Intellectual influence from the related studies: Social influence in the study: Intellectual influence from outside the study: Social influence of social circumstances and international relations.

Comparative studies of peace education advanced in the first half of the 1990s. The number of peace education researchers increased using the concept of “comprehensive peace education” in the 1990s. The network of peace education researchers expanded in Europe and the United States, and the study results were achieved. Such development became a driving force for launching the Journal of Peace Education in 2004. This new journal can be regarded as the indicator for the institutionalization of peace education study in the world.

This paper suggests that the increase of peace education researchers can aim at the formation of peace education study. While extending the subject of peace education research and systematizing its results, peace education about war is anticipated to develop.