共催シンポジウム”Sport and Wellness in East Africa: Endurance Running as an Effective Strategy for Youth Development and Public Wellness” のお知らせ

更新日:2025/09/08

2025年9月9日（火）と10日（水）、JSPSナイロビ研究連絡センターは、筑波大学・ケニヤッタ大学と共催で、東アフリカのスポーツとウェルネスに関するシンポジウム（ハイブリッド式）を開催します。会場はケニヤッタ大学となります。日本からは筑波大学の鍋倉賢治教授による基調講演をいただくとともに、筑波大学、ケニヤッタ大学、マシンデムリロ科学技術大学、キャンボゴ大学などからも講師を招きます。

タイトル：”Sport and Wellness in East Africa: Endurance Running as an Effective Strategy for Youth Development and Public Wellness”

日時：令和7（2025）年9月9日（火）、10日（水）

場所：Kenyatta University Business and Student Services Centre (KUBSSC)（ケニア・ナイロビ）

開催方法：
ハイブリッド開催。参加費無料。

問い合わせ先：JSPSナイロビ研究連絡センター　nbo-academia＊overseas.jsps.go.jp　（※メールを送る際は「＊」を「＠」に置き換えてください。

今回のシンポジウムの趣旨は、以下の通りです。

Concept:

Endurance running is increasingly garnering attention from different stakeholders for its potential roles in creating positive changes for both individuals and societies. Although widely discussed across various academic fields, effective cross-disciplinary communication remains limited. This presents several challenges, for instance, in understanding the advantages and disadvantages of talent development in competitive contexts or youth development in general education systems, the commercialization of sports and its impact on local life, and emerging initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) fields that utilize endurance running to address developmental issues. In East Africa and Asia in particular, our understanding of the historical and sociocultural significance of endurance running as both sport and physical culture continues to evolve, taking local cosmologies and norms into account. Scientific studies of this sport among populations in both continents—spanning exercise physiology, biomechanics, and sport psychology—provide new insights that challenge Western-centric knowledge construction in these fields. Together, these findings raise important questions about previously generalized assumptions regarding human health and development.

In response to the aforementioned needs, this symposium brings together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Japan to exchange knowledge, good practices, and challenges in the field of endurance running. In Particular, we explore the pedagogical roles of this sport across various educational contexts, including, formal education, mass education, competitive events, and tourism.

The academic exchanges in sport research under the KU-UT collaboration was initiated in 2018. Since then, the team has organized several international symposiums, with the primary goal of fostering cross-boundary communication and knowledge sharing across Africa and Asia. This symposium marks the fifth edition, focusing particularly on endurance running—one of the most popular sport topics in both continents. We anticipate that this academic exchange will lead to a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of this sport and provide productive and valuable recommendations for policymaking and education, leveraging endurance running to promote positive changes in youth health and wellness.

日本語説明：

持久走は、個人の成長や社会の活性化に寄与するスポーツとして、近年多方面から注目を集めている。競技における才能育成や教育現場での活用、スポーツの商業化と地域社会への影響、さらに「開発と平和のためのスポーツ（SDP）」における実践など、関心は多岐にわたるものの、地域を跨ぐ学際的な対話はまだ限られている。本シンポジウムでは、ケニア、ウガンダ、日本の研究者や実務者が集い、持久走に関する知見や実践を共有する。とくに、持久走と関連する教育や研究、そして、それらの成果を生かした国際開発における取り組みなど、多様な場面での役割に焦点を当てる。本企画は、2018年に始まったケニヤッタ大学と筑波大学間の学術連携に基づき開催されるもので、今回で第5回を迎える。持久走を切り口に、青少年の健康と福祉の向上に向けた教育と研究のさらなる連携を目指す。