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emember disasters collectively. Second, it proposes how we collectively remember the calamities.
The present study pursued these two goals by focusing on the functions of Kobe Earthquake
museums as well as other natural and man-made disasters. It revealed that the museums served as
a place to collectively remember the disasters. The research indicated, however, that additional
disaster-related activities following the visit would be critical for visitors further collective
remembering. Practical implications for transferring experiences of the Kobe Earthquake to the
next generation are discussed.
5137.6 Toward collaborative practice through interview method: A case of the Chi-Chi great
earthquake in Taiwan, 1999, Kensuke Kato, Tomohide Atsumi, Graduate school of Human
Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
We investigated the interview method as a tool of "collaborative practice" (Sugiman, 2000)
between practitioners and researchers. We conducted interviews with the victims of the Chi-Chi
great earthquake (1999, Taiwan), and examined (1) narratives of interviewees during the interview,
(2) reflections of interviewers following the interview. As a result of these interviews, not only
victims but also researchers reconsidered their own tacit premises (collectivity: Sugiman, 2001).
Namely, both collectivities were transfigured through the interview process. We considered that
the field of the interview is the occasion of encounter for practitioners' and researchers' collectivity,
and the researchers can conduct "collaborative practice".
5137.7 Computer simulations of relations between three or more persons based on a balance
theory, Satohide Mizutani, Research Center of Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University, Japan
The changes of liking-disliking relations have been simulated by a computational model based on
Heider's balance theory. The features of the model are asymmetric relations and signed relations,
in comparison with ordinary social network's models. First of all, it is showed whether patterns of
signed relations at three or more persons converge on specific patterns and become patterns with
states of balance. Secondly, it is showed how each length of times to converge is related to the
initial pattern and the rules of changes.
5137.8 A case study of a school trip to Hiroshima, Koichi Suwa, Tomohide Atsumi, Osaka
University, Japan
Many elementary schools in Osaka, Japan, have a two-day school trip to Hiroshima, the first city
to suffer from an atomic bomb attack, as a part of peace education. One particular school in Osaka
has had a stream of practices for 25 years and it consists mainly of listening to arratives of
Hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bomb attack. We focused on this school's activities, and
examined them from the perspective of group dynamics, especially communication. We concluded
that the examined case is an alternative peace education, which abandons specific collective
behaviors and communications to the ignored region.
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