日系国際児の文化的アイデンティティ形成 : 事例の検討

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the cultural identity formation in "Intercultural children" with similar backgrounds, by analyzing and comparing the cases in detail. The subjects are two teenager girls who have Japanese fathers and German mothers and who visit the German international school in Japan. Repeated interviews have been conducted. In both cases, the subjects qualified as having formed "identities as international children,"but their dominant cultures were different. Futhermore, certain facets like: 1) the Geman mothers ' attitudes towards the Japanese language and culture; 2) the intenational school which offers a "moratorium" for cultural identity; and 3) the bilingual and bicultural environment from the subjects' infancy are important for cultural identity formation of "intercultural children". Moreover, it is suggested that the "case study method" has been very useful for clarifying cultural identity formation of "intercultural children".