Open Seminar on Children's Rights in Historical Perspective given by Prof. Fuchs

I was so glad to meet Prof. Fuchs and listen to his lecture in GSID, because the topic of his lecture, “Children's Rights in Historical Perspective”, researching education from historical perspective, was new for many students in GSID. In the lecture, we could know how the ‘children rights’ has emerged in the age of modernization and how it became norm in the local, region and international society. It seems that for many students that to doubt the concept of ‘children rights’ help change their paradigm to think of education since they had took for the granted the concept when we research the education.
For me, in personal, since now I read some books about historical research of education written by Japanese scholars, it was interesting that I could compare the research of history of education between Western and Japan, and how the history of conceptualization or becoming norm is different in western and Japan. I was simulated more in this point and now I would like to think more how this is different depending on the cultures of the regions.
In addition to that, to get comments from Prof. Fucks for my research in my seminar was great pleasure for me. Since my research topic is peace education in Japan and it has strong tie with the textbook issue in Japan, I was so glad to get the comment from the Professor of expert of this issue.
In order to maximize the comment from the Prof. Fuchs, I will try thinking my research from wider view point and also try deepening the topic.
We would like to thank Professor Fuchs for coming here and to give me an opportunity to get comment from you and also for your lecture, and we hope to see you again!

Sayaka Higuchi