FUKUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY

Sen-ich MORIYAMA (professor)

BA in Education (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 1969);
MA in Sociology of Education (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 1972);
PhD in Education (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 1997).

Senich Moriyama was born in China and brought up in Hita city, northern Kyushu. He studied Sociology of Education at Kyushu University and later at Kyushu University's graduate school. He has taught Dowa Studies (about Buraku, a minority group in Japan) and Education and Community Education at Kumamoto Commerce University and Saga University. He is currently working in the Department of Public Sociology at Fukuoka Prefectural University. Professor MORIYAMA has also conducted extensive fieldwork and research on the Tagawa/Chikuho region in Japan and the Shanghai region in China.

Courses

1. Introduction to Human Rights: This course for first-year students provides an outline of fundamental human rights, and focuses on minority groups (e.g. Buraku, Koreans in Japan, the Ainu people) in modern Japan.

2. Sociology in Education: This course examines how sociological analysis can be applied to the study of education and the community. More specifically, it compares community systems and school systems.

3. Special Lecture I on Social Education: This course applies different perspectives (from, for example, minority groups in Japan) in order to rethink education in our own culture. This approach is used to consider issues such as minority education.

4. Sociological Studies on Nurturing Education: This post-graduate course focuses on life-long learning in consumer- and information-oriented societies, and discusses social theory relevant to the development of such societies. More specifically, students examine how individuals assimilate themselves into the community, and how demand within the community affects education.

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