身体感性論の改良主義（meliorism）と教育

Meliorism in Somaesthetics and Education

Bae Jiyun

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第一部, 学習開発関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 1, Learning and curriculum development

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the meliorism in education, and somaesthetics as a clue, to discuss possibilities of new meliorism in education. Education essentially pursuits better changes of people. However, “betterness” is the ambiguous and controversial concept as already revealed in the history of education. For example, education uncritically accepted betterness from eugenics and violated human rights as a result. Also, the Enlightenment defined the state of ignorance one-sidedly. Nevertheless, it is impossible to get rid of a pursuit of betterness from education. Pursuit of betterness is also a major axis of Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, a study concerned with the experience and the use of one’s body, not only the physical body but also soma as a holistic self.“ Meliorism” or betterness is a fundamental position and idea in somaesthetics. Meliorism in somaesthetics puts the somatic experience in its center. Also, it is a medium of optimism and pessimism to encourage action. This can be a clue to draw up a new meliorism in education. As a specific image of education, Toshio Nakamura’s theory and practices of physical education were considered. They suggest possibilities of meliorism in education from the viewpoint of somaesthetics.

meliorism

somaesthetics

education

Richard Shusterman

Toshio Nakamura

改良主義

身体感性論

教育

リチャード・シュスターマン

中村敏雄

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5546

[NCID] AA11618554