Family Memory and Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge and Values In East Asia: Toward a Future of Solidarity

This session highlights family education and socialization from a comparative perspective in East Asia. It examines how historical experiences are transformed into family cultures and transmitted across generations.

The session explores the relationships among family memory, the intergenerational transmission of knowledge and values, everyday practices of child socialization, and strategies of cultural and educational reproduction in rapidly changing societies.

Drawing on theories of cultural reproduction, educational transmission, and the relationship between education and power, it examines transformations in family structures, gender roles, educational opportunities, and strategies of the “educational family.”

The session also addresses women’s experiences of care, education, work, and family responsibility from a gender perspective, with particular attention to the roles of mothers and grandmothers in transmitting knowledge and values across generations.

Educational values and orientations are formed and transmitted within families through daily interactions, family narratives, and shared practices. Experiences of poverty, migration, war, and socioeconomic change become embedded in everyday life through attitudes toward learning, family responsibility, work ethics, food practices, and expectations for children’s education.

By comparing East Asian societies in a global context, this session seeks new perspectives on solidarity and social coexistence from the viewpoint of the sociology of education.