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Associate Professor：OMORI Mariko
Research Interests:
My area of specialization is the social history of education in the West, particularly in the United States.
My research interest is to clarify how the immigrant children were perceived in modern and contemporary American society, and how the creation of differences and the construction of classifications based on race and nationality shaped the way in which the immigrant children were protected and educated.
My current research themes are as follows: (1) historical research on orphanages and foster care in modern and contemporary America; (2) historical research on intelligence, race, and nationality in relation to immigrant children; and (3) historical research on protection and education for the feeble-minded children.
Major Publications:
1. The establishment of special classes and special schools within the public school system in the United States, 1903−1918: Based on the proceedings and addresses of the national education association. Bulletin of the Center for Special Needs Education Research and Practice Hiroshima University, 22, 51-60, 2024. (Single-authored; Japanese)
2. The development of child protection works in the United States and China: The activities of Rokuichi Kusumoto and Yasuko Kusumoto, In Y. Murota, K. Imai, H. Takaoka, T. Hachiya, & S. Kuramochi (eds.), Pioneers of Osaka child welfare: A historical study of the Hakuaisha (pp. 401-426). Rikka Press, 2023. (Co-authored; Japanese)
3. Home visiting by home teachers in California, U.S.A. from the 1910s to 1920s: The commission of immigration and housing of California’s approach to children. American History, 46, 69-85, 2023. (Single-authored; Japanese)
4. The introduction and development of medicine in American juvenile justice: The medical activities of the Philadelphia municipal court, 1914–1927, In A. Tsuchiya & T. Nonomura (eds.), The medical gaze and the modern child: Orphaned, poor and institutionalised children in history (pp. 291-324). Keiso Shobo, 2023. (Co-authored; Japanese)
5. Curriculum organization for the classes of intellectually disabled children in Minnesota, U.S.A. : “A report on a course of study for ‘opportunity classes'” (1919), Kyushu University Bulletin of Teacher-Training Curriculum Studies, 7, 33-47, 2023. (Co-authored; Japanese)
6. “Protection” and “classification”: A social history of Japanese immigrant children in America, Kyushu University Press, 2022. (Single-authored; Japanese)
7. Educational therapeutics or a clearing house for exceptional children?: the development of adjustment rooms in Los Angeles, 1916–1923. Paedagogica Historica, 59(1), 90-107, 2023. (Single-authored; English)
8. The discovery of feeblemindedness among immigrant children through intelligence tests in California in the 1910s. Paedagogica Historica, 54(1-2), 221-235, 2018. (Single-authored; English)