「ろう文化」をアイデンティティとする学生を含む卒論演習の実践報告 : 「社会政策演習」2セメスター30回の記録を用いて

In 2005, the Department of Social Work and Environmental Sciences of Showa Women\u27s University accepted its first deaf student, A. The student, A, who identifies as a member of "Deaf Culture" wrote a graduation thesis as a member of the "Social Policy Seminar." She did so with the assistance of the supervising professor and a doctoral candidate in Showa\u27s graduate school who served as a teaching assistant. With the aid of seven seminar students who were members of the sign language circle the researchers analyzed the records of 30 exercises spanning two semesters. This report will first show the process how communication with the deaf student was made possible. Second, it will explain how intercultural understanding was achieved between the culture of the deaf and the culture of the hearing

「ボランティア国際年」に関する国内外の動向と国際的見解 : ボランティアの方向と展開のために

The purpose of this paper is to examine world trends and perspectives on the International Year of Volunteers (IYV 2001) in order to get new suggestions for our study on volunteerism. The materials were obtained by references, Internet, and documents from IYV related organizations. On international perspectives of IYV 2001, the authors examine the 5 points: (1) The 11th and 16th World Volunteer Conference and The Universal Declaration on Volunteering by IAVE, (2) "Strategy 2000" by UNV, (3) Guidance Notes for IYV 2001, (4) "Volunteering and Social Development" adopted at the Commission for Social Development UN on Feb. 23, 2001, (5) process of establishment of The International Volunteer Day (IVD) for Economic and Social Development on Dec. 5 and the evaluation of IYV itself in Global Closing Event of IYV on Dec. 5, 2001. Above all, the authors reconfirmed that it was difficult to define volunteerism universally. IYV and IAVE recognized as important two keywords, "equality" and "solidarity." The authors gave the term "volunteer activity" an original definition in this paper

高等教育への障害者のアクセス:教育のユニバーサルデザイン : 米国の障害者支援システムに学ぶ

This paper has three purposes. First, it seeks to pursue a support system for persons with disabilities seeking higher education in the USA and to present the idea of "Universal Design in Education." Second, we will discuss the support system in the University of Oregon as a practical case in point. Finally, we will examine the access given to people with disabilities to higher education in Japan. The study incorporates literature, conference documents, internet searches, and an on-site inspection. The results were as follows. 1. In US facilities of higher education, disabled students receive various special services under the law. 2. Under the idea of "Universal Design in Education," it was practicable for students with learning disabilities to access higher education. 3. The practical experiments in the United States provide suggestions for application in Japan

養護学校における就労支援の現状 : 障害者雇用促進のための一課題

This paper is part of a research project on promoting the employment of disabled persons. The purpose of this paper is to determine the present condition of the employment support system for disabled persons, examining what sort of support will be needed for employment promotion from the social welfare perspectives, and contributing to the promotion of employment of disabled persons. First, the existing governmental and private sector statistics were used. Second, persons concerned were interviewed, and questionnaires were sent to all Tokyo metropolitan schools for mentally and physically handicapped children. The results are as follows. Many disabled persons received education in high schools for mentally or physically handicapped children and were employed after graduation. It turned out that it was most important to support adaptation and fixation in the work place while at school. It was shown that it is necessary to offer disabled persons employment support and that this should be tackled from complex viewpoints, such as welfare and labor policies. It was also pointed out that the related ministries and government offices should cooperate with each other

消費者物価指数関連統計にみる1990年代日本の消費生活様式の特徴

What is considered important in industrial countries is the changing consumption patterns discussed at the UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Japanese lifestyle in the 1990s from the data related Consumer Price Index (CPI). The CPI is calculated to measure chronologically, the price movements of commodities and services which are purchased by consumers\u27 households throughout the country. Index items are selected according to the relative importance of each item to the total consumption expenditures, the representativeness of items in price movements, and the feasibility of price collection over time, thus index items may represent price movements of all the commodities and services purchased by consumers. In and after 1955, the base periods have been revised every five years. The results were as follows: the imported commodities increased, a tendency toward "Luxury" was recognized, leisure oriented product and services increased, commodities for the promotion of health multiplied, traditional commodities decreased, and the trend toward a service economy expanded. It was showed that the CPI related data was useful for understanding a part of actual situation of the Japanese lifestyle

生活様式としての労働と余暇 : ジェンダー視点から

The conventional theories of lifestyle in Japan have been based on the aspect that lifestyle is composed of the system of means of subsistence and have often neglected the aspect of actual time allocation. We consider the timeallocation, particularly that for labor and leisure through life, as another significant component of lifestyle. The purpose of this paper is to examine labor, leisure, and the relations between them from the viewpoint of the history and the Gender analisis, to point out the present problems in Japan, and the finally to give the forecasted future evolution. It is forecasted that the variety of working style both men and women choose for themselves, the participation of women in workplace (the labor feminization), the changes in working style, the pursuit of labor as the purpose of life, and the aging of the people will progress due to the shortening of men\u27s paid working hours and total lifetime working years and the increase in men\u27s non-paid working hours (the reverse in women) in the future socirty. With the accomplished new relations of production throughout the world, the further developed productive forces, and the enhanced thought of human rights, the qualitative, temporal difference will become less in labor and leisure between men and women, and labor and leisure will more overlap each ohter