Academic research and researcher's own life

10) Connection of academic research to researcher's own life
The most important thing for life studies is that a researcher hem/herself can live his/her own life without regret. In this sense,academic research that will not help transform the researcher's own life should not be called "life studies." Life studies encourages a researcher to rethink his/her actual life and transform it, and after that, express that painful process in some form in order share it among us. Morioka expressed the process in the book Painless Civilization (2003). This process should lead to the transformation of the social system and our intellect.

* I plan to foster research network for life studies to communicate with each other and learn from each others' experiences. If you are interested in our project, and if you are frustrated with an existing discipline, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would like to know your ideas or plans.

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What is Life Studies
(2004)
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