Form, Emotion, and Individual Awakening: An Analysis of Tokuo Kataoka's Sociology of Literary Education

In the early stages of his research, Japanese scholar Tokuo Kataoka focused on the sociology of the classroom, and his theory and practice of classroom collective building is rich in ideas that advocate individual awakening and growth. Kataoka has always shown a strong concern and systematic thinking about the emotional issues related to individual awakening and growth, and this gesture or spirit was further developed and even enhanced in his later research on the sociology of literary education. In particular, Kataoka's focus on the representation of parent-child concepts of parent-child relationships in classical opera has opened a wealth of analytical possibilities for objects and materials that were previously difficult to access in educational studies, allowing for a more expansive and multifaceted approach to thinking about education and human growth.