【PART 2 10:50 -12:30】 日本の<孤独>から見る観想教育の展望/Japanese selfhood and prospects of contemplative learning
Keynote Lecture by Dr. Chikako Ozawa-de-Silva.
Title: “Preventing the ’Lonely Society’: The implications of Japanese Naikan practice
for Contemplative Education (内観)”
「孤独社会」を超えて:
Abstract:
Research on loneliness in Japan suggests that loneliness is not just being alone: it is perceived and felt social isolation, a lack of belonging and of being at home in one’s own place (ibasho). If this is true, attempts to address loneliness need to shift away from seeing it as an individual problem to recognizing the social conditions that are making adolescents feel so isolated and lonely, even to the point of suicidality. The first part of the talk focuses on loneliness as a social issue; the second part focuses on contemplative education as a potential tool for addressing and preventing loneliness. Here, I focus on Naikan, a secularized contemplative practice centered on reciprocity, which has already been used as contemplative education in various settings, including prisons and schools. Additionally, a culture shift is needed that moves us away from seeing children and adults as having only instrumental, rather than intrinsic, value, such as by assigning worth based only on individual performance and productivity.
日本社会の孤独に関する近年の研究では、孤独とは、
講演の前半では、
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, D.Phil., is a Professor of Japanese Studies and Anthropology at Emory University. She is a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) grant recipient and a Mind and Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship (The John Templeton Foundation) recipient. Her academic vision is to contribute to cross-cultural understandings of health, illness and well-being by bringing Western and Asian perspectives on the mind-body, religion, medicine, and therapy into fruitful dialogue. Her publications include two monographs: the multi-award winning The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan (University of California Press, 2021) and Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan: The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan (Routledge, 2006); as well as a co-edited special issue “Toward an Anthropology of Loneliness” in Transcultural Psychiatry (2020) and over twenty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. For the past ten years her research has focused on loneliness, empathy, meaning-making, subjectivity, contemplative practice, and resilience in Japan and the US.
11:45 -12:00 comment: Dr. Miho Takahashi, Tokyo University (Faculty of Education)
12:00-12:30 Discussion
Moderator; Kazuha Ogasawara