Osaka Kyoiku University Researcher Information
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Curriculum Vitaes
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Division of General Education, Osaka Kyoiku University
- Degree
- Ph.D. (Education)(The University of Tokyo)博士(教育学）(東京大学)M. A. (Education)(The University of Tokyo)修士(教育学)(東京大学)
- Contact information
- komatsu
cc.osaka-kyoiku.ac.jp - Researcher number
- 60324886
- ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9613-0931- J-GLOBAL ID
- 200901021050985208
- researchmap Member ID
- 1000306965
Research Interests
2Research History
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Apr, 2023 - Present
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Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2023
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Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2007
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Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2005
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Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2002
Education
2Committee Memberships
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Sep, 2013
Major Papers
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INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, 51(1) 14-28, Mar, 2017 Peer-reviewed
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INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, 50(1) 174-183, Mar, 2016 Peer-reviewed
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Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 64(1) 76-87, 2016 Peer-reviewed
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Psychology as the Science of Human Being: The Yokohama Manifesto, 13 287-297, Sep 9, 2015
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Shinrigaku Kenkyu, 86(6) 589-595, 2015 Peer-reviewed
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発達心理学研究 （日本発達心理学会）, 25(3) 323-335, Sep, 2014 Peer-reviewed
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INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, 46(3) 357-372, Sep, 2012 Peer-reviewed
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Shinrigaku Kenkyu, 83(2) 82-90, 2012 Peer-reviewed
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, 53(4) 208-228, 2010 Peer-reviewed
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発達心理学研究 （日本発達心理学会）, 17(2) 115-125, Aug, 2006 Peer-reviewedIn this study, natural conversations between a young girl and her mother were recorded in a car over a 17-month period (from ages 4:4 to 5:8), mainly when they were driving home from nursery school. Analysis of the recordings (34 hours over 153 days) focused on conversations that depicted the girl in relation to her nursery school friends. In 50 episodes concerning her interpersonal experiences at the nursery school, the girl frequently compared or enumerated her friends and herself, using several criteria such as their abilities or their roles in pretend play. In the early portions of the recordings, only simple comparisons and enumeration were observed. But later in the tapings, several narratives or explanations concerning the characteristics of the enumerated person were skillfully inserted into the enumeration. Whereas the mother directly supported her child's expressions in the early part of the research period, her role gradually changed, and the communication became increasingly mutual and collaborative.
Major Misc.
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教育心理学年報 （日本教育心理学会）, 52 12-23, Mar, 2013 InvitedThis article reviews studies concerning development during childhood and adolescence published between July 2011 and June 2012. First, we examine studies of cognitive development and language development by focusing on the topics of reading/writing, pragmatics in oral communication, critical thinking, and development of operational thinking. Second, by investigating the studies of children's development in social relationships, we highlight the importance of understanding the presupposition and limitation of the quantitative methods that are salient in these studies. Third, we review studies of adolescents' social development that discuss the dynamics of development in socio-cultural contexts, including various daily activities. Finally, we introduce the theoretical inquiries regarding developmental stages that were published in a special issue of the Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology as a remarkable accomplishment in the developmental psychology in Japan.
Major Books and Other Publications
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Information Age Publishing, Sep, 2024 (ISBN: 9798887307947)This volume attempts to delineate the construction of the self in institutional settings of the contemporary world, with the topics ranging from young children to adults and from the micro level to the macro level of human development. The chapters focus on the activities or practices that characterize institutional settings, stressing their dialogical nature that enables understanding human development and the self as what emerge from the dialectic tension of these events—that is, conflicts or contradictions. Discussions included in this volume are different from the principal ways of evaluating institutions in the modern world—i.e., quantitative reports of achievements or merits—but strongly promote further dialogue among researchers and practitioners. This volume offers a new perspective to anyone who are interested in how we psychologically and socially develop in contemporary society, including teachers or practitioners who actually work with children and youths.
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Meaning-making for living: The emergence of the presentational self in children’s everyday dialoguesSpringer Nature, Nov, 2019 (ISBN: 9783030199258)This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children’s selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new psychological inquiries into children's selves and builds upon the innovative theoretical notion of the Presentational Self, developed by the author over the last decade. The book illustrates how the observation of children’s meaning construction in their everyday lives becomes a starting point for theoretical and empirical inquiries into child development and gives a framework that promotes new inquiries in this area. The book describes the Presentational Self Theory as a sense of how the notion of the Self is being worked upon in everyday life encounters. Chapters feature in-depth analyses of exchanges between adults and children in the Japanese cultural context.
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Information Age Publishing, May, 2019 (ISBN: 9781641136822)
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Information Age Publishing, Jul, 2013 (ISBN: 9781623963941)
Professional Memberships
4Major Research Projects
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027
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2017 - 2019
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2017 - 2019
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2016 - 2018
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2011 - 2014
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2011 - 2012