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Morita Jiro

Morita Jiro
Affiliation and department：
Chukyo University School of Contemporary Sociology

About Chukyo University School of Contemporary Sociology


Job title： Associate Professor
Research field  (1)： Sociology
Research keywords  (10)： long-term absence from school ,  children's rights ,  capability approach (CA) ,  citizenship education ,  inequality ,  compulsory education ,  life-long learning ,  social studies / civics education ,  qualitative research method ,  depopulation and aging population
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (9)：
  • 2025 - 2029 「市民」に必要な能力をいかにつくるか:共生のための自生的教育プログラム開発と実践
  • 2021 - 2025 「ジモトとしての豊田市研究--移動と教育からみた豊田/トヨタの多層性」
  • 2019 - 2023 「市民」に必要な能力は何か:シティズンシップ教育のプログラム開発に関する基礎研究
  • 2016 - 2019 オルタナティブな学校文化創造のための比較社会学的研究:日常的実践の可能性
  • 2016 - 2017 現代日本社会における差異化原理を解明するための社会調査モジュールの開発と応用
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Papers (23)：
  • 森田次朗. 「不登校」をめぐる論点整理ーー教育社会学における関係論と権利論の視点から. 早稲田教育ブックレット. 2025. 34. 4-15
  • Jiro Morita. The Applicability of Concepts Based on "Mobility" to the Sociology of Education: Existential Mobility, Global Non-Elite, and Home. Chukyo University School of Contemporary Sociology Bulletin. 2023. 17. 1. 105-121
  • Jiro Morita. Writing "Mobility: A Dialogue with;An Ethnography of;Japanese Raised in Guam:The Life Course of;Shin-nisei with Japan. Chukyo University School of Contemporary Sociology Bulletin. 2023. 17. 1. 89-96
  • Boundaries of Welfare/Education and Children’s Freedom in the Context of School Non-attendance: Capability, Sorting Out Difficulties in Life, and Free Schools. Journal of Welfare Sociology. 2022. 19. 51-70
  • The Everyday Practices of Free Schools in Contemporary Japan and Lived Citizenship Education: Belonging, Aspiration, Democracy. 2021. 20. 39-62
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MISC (19)：
  • 森田次朗, 北山夕華. 独立学校からみたシティズンシップ教育:サマーヒル・スクールの事例から(イギリスのシティズンシップ教育 第五回). Voters. 2021. 64. 20-21
  • 森田次朗, 北山夕華. 民間活動からみたシティズンシップ教育の現況(イギリスのシティズンシップ教育 第三回). Voters. 2021. 62. 18-19
  • 【書評】広瀬義徳・桜井啓太編『自立に追い立てられる社会』. 『福祉社会学研究』. 2021. 18. 268-272
  • 森田次朗. 【書評】ジョゼ・ジョンストン・シャイヨン・バウマン著『フーディーーーグルメフードスケープにおける民主主義と卓越化』. 『図書新聞』. 2021. 3478
  • 森田次朗. 【書評】今津孝次郎著『いじめ・虐待・体罰をその一言で語らないーー教育のことばを問い直す』. 『ソシオロジ』. 2020. 65. 1. 53-57
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Books (5)：
  • 民主的社会をつくるシティズンシップ教育 : 理論と実践の現在
    ナカニシヤ出版 2025 ISBN:9784779518782
  • Hear the “Weeds” Talking Strangely: What’s the Locality?
    Chapter 15, Writing 'Traces of Dreams': Learning from Oroshi Gakuen School about the 'Ideal' School in a Society with a Declining Population 2021 ISBN:9784894892958
  • Social anthropology of everyday practice: cities, resistance and communality
    Chapter 19, Reconsidering the conditions for the establishment of children's 'safe spaces' from a theory of everyday practice: the freedom and ambiguity of activities in contemporary Japanese free schools 2021 ISBN:9784991147371
  • Culture, Class, Distinction
    2017 ISBN:4787234250
  • Sociologie de l'expérience
    2011 ISBN:4787710109
Lectures and oral presentations  (28)：
  • 「探究学習」は何を探究するのかーー東海圏の公立高校における個人探究と社会学教育の接続可能性
    (第98回日本社会学会大会 2025)
  • Rethinking the Conflicts in Children’s Capability Formation: An Ethnographic Study of ‘Free Schools’ and Non-school Attendees’ Aspirations in Japan
    (2025)
  • Reformulating Children’s Right to Rest: The Existential Significance of ‘Free Schools’ for Long-Term Absentees in Japan
    (International Association for Human Rights Education Conference 2025 (UCL IOE, Panel 7: Children's Rights) 2025)
  • Children's Aspirational Diversity and Capabilities in Alternative Education: An Ethnographic Study of 'Free Schools and Non-school Attendees' Participation Rights in Japan
    (2024)
  • Navigating Ideals and Realities: Democratic Dialogue and Children's Rights in a Japanese Sudbury School
    (2024)
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Education (3)：
  • 2007 - 2011 Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters Division of Behavioral Studies
  • 2005 - 2007 Kyoto University
  • 2001 - 2005 Kyoto University Faculty of Letters
Professional career (1)：
  • PhD in Literature (Kyoto University)
Work history (7)：
  • 2018/04 - 現在 Chukyo University School of Contemporary Sociology Associate Professor
  • 2022/08 - 2023/08 Affiliate Academic, IOE, UCL
  • 2014/04 - 2018/03 Chukyo University School of Contemporary Sociology
  • 2013/12 - 2014/03 Kindai University Faculty of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies
  • 2012/09 - 2014/03 Kwansei Gakuin University School of Sociology
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Awards (1)：
  • 2007/06 - Kansai Sociological Association Best Report Award at the 58th Kansai Sociological Association Conference
Association Membership(s) (9)：
International Association for Human Rights Education ,  The Society for Sociological Theory in Japan ,  JAPAN WELFARE SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION ,  THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY ,  THE JAPAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY ,  KANSAI SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ,  Human Development and Capability Association ,  JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ,  International Sociological Association
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