Staff Profile

2026.06.08.

YOSHIDA Yayoi

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E-mail

yoshida*edu.hokudai.ac.jp
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Seminar

Adult and Community Education

Undergraduate School Affiliation

Social Sciences of Education

Graduate School Affiliation

Life-long Education

Message

I was born in a regional city in Hokkaido and grew up experiencing the problem of a declining population. I am thinking about how we can cope with the impact of a declining population on our lives, and what is necessary for everyone to be able to participate in the process of rebuilding the region.

Special field

Adult and Community Education

Research theme

・Learning in the formation of community development actors
・ Participation of diverse local residents in community development organizations

Research keywords

Autonomy, regional development, endogenous development, cooperation, depopulated areas

Detailed contents of research

My research focuses on the formation of actors in community development, focusing on the process by which diverse local residents collaborate. In depopulated areas, although various residents must cooperate, they are often unable to break away from traditional economic and social structures and customs, and activities do not develop. I focus on activities rooted in local nature and culture, and research how community development occurs toward endogenous development, and how residents cooperate in this process.

Simplified curriculum vitae

2024-present
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University
2021- present
Resercher, Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University
2021
PhD of Education from Hokkaido University
2011-2020
Doctoral Course, Graduate School of Social Science, Hokkaido University(was quit in March, 2020)

Research achievements

YOSHIDA Yayoi, 2019,” Cooperation of community residents for community development of depopulated areas : A case study of mountainous area, Karekimata, in Tokamachi-shi, Niigata Prefecture”, Bulletin of Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University, No.135,pp.1-25.
YOSHIDA Yayoi, 2019,”:The Role of Kominkan in Contributing to the Formation of Cooperative Relations That Build Autonomy in Mountainous Regions: A Case Study of the Tobitari Kominkan in Tokamachi-shi, Niigata Prefecture”, Bulletin of The Japan Society for The Sutudy of Kominkan, Vol.16, pp.34-44.
YOSHIDA Yayoi, 2022,” Learning of the Elderly in the Cooperative Community Development of Rural Areas: A Case Study of the Iketani Village in Tobitari area, Tokamachi-shi, Niigata Prefecture”, Studies in Adult and Community Education, No.66, pp.216-228

Society Affiliation

The Japan Society for The Study of Adult and Community Education, The Japan Society for the study of Kominkan,

Detailed profile

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