Yoshioka Kazushi

Associate professor at Yamaguchi Prefectural University. Born in 1981. Researches children’s culture and school kaidan (scary stories). His paper “Kodomo no shutaisei raisan o koete: Gakkō no kaidan o meguru kyōshi to kodomo” (Going Beyond Praise of Children’s Autonomy: Teachers and Children in Relation to School Kaidan) appeared in Kodomo e no shikaku: Atarashii kodomo shakai kenkyū (Perspectives on Children: New Research on Children’s Societies).