The purpose of this article is to clarify the concept of “National People's Culture” in UEHARA Senroku's theory of subject-formation. This study clarifies the following five points.
1. UEHARA proposed a relationship of tension between “politics and culture” in “National People's Culture” theory. In this relationshp, “National People's Culture” has an independent standpoint as culture, not dependent on political logic, but bounding solutions to political problems on a deep level.
2. In this theory, UEHARA saw that the basis of human dignity, Japanese individuality and morality could be observed in moments in people's everyday lives and work. Moreover UEHARA placed these observations within the theories of national people's independence and community independence.
3. Accordingly, UEHARA's concept of the national includes moments that check problems of the closed idea of the Japanese Nation, relatively.
4. In the process of Japanese peoples' empowerment, leaners should continue to recognize the situations of “National Culture”, “National People's Education” and “The Japanese Nation” within their own value standards. This method is one aspect of the “historical mind” that UEHARAa proposed.
5. In UEHARA's theory, firstly, practices for creating “National People's Culture” promote learner's practices that recognize their communiy ethos from the insider's own standpoint. Further, these practices promote learner's practices that liberate the self from community restraints. UEHARA designed the concept of “National People's Culture” as a concept that has the above mentioned functions.
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