Community Development through Cooperation between Inhabitants and Graduate Students : A Report on Our Activities in Okinoshima Town, Shimane Prefecture

ジュウミン　ト　ダイガクインセイ　ノ　キョウドウ　ニ　ヨル　マチヅクリ　カツドウ　ノ　テンカイ　シマネケン　オキノシマ　チョウ　デノ　カツドウ　ホウコク

Shimada, Hiroyuki

田尾, 俊輔

Tao, Shunsuke

小島, 晋一郎

Kojima, Shin-ichiro

中野, 将

Nakano, Sho

岩泉, 達也

Iwaizumi, Tatsuya

ソーシャル・キャピタル

ワークショップ

隠岐の島町

community development

Social Capital

workshop

Okinoshima Town

We have conducted several activities to tackle social problems in Okinoshima Town, Shimane Prefecture, Japan since 2019. This town has recently faced population decreasing, especially a great drain on young people. In order to attack problems caused by such a situation, the authors have gotten information from not only previous studies including Social Capital (Putnam, 2000=2006), which regards social network as capital, Outsider Effects (Shikida, 2005; 2009), and Machizukuri Round Table (Hisa, n.d.) but also our fieldwork and communication in the town. These investigations gave us a roadmap to an ideal situation where people continuously solve social problems and come up with a series of new ideas. As a first step, the inhabitants and authors decided to improve the whole vitality of the town. We have created opportunities for high-school students to ask graduate students, held workshops as a place to discuss the town’s problems, and had a study meeting and symposium jointly promoted by Oki High School and Osaka University. Furthermore, one of the ideas from the workshops, voluntary juku for junior-high-school students, has been realized. Lastly, we have evaluated our roles as graduate students in Okinoshima Town and pointed out some possibility of theoretical feedback from these activities.

田尾, 俊輔

小島, 晋一郎

中野, 将

岩泉, 達也