ASPnet in JAPAN

Kaori WAKAYA Japanese National Commission for UNESCO (JNCU)

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan (MEXT)

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ASPnet in Japan at a glance ①

The Number of ASPnet Schools in Japan

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Others(31)

Special needs School (9)

Technical college(1)

University(5)

High school(145)

Unified lower and upper

secondary school etc(54)

Junior high school(247)

Elementary school(521)

Kindergarten(20)15 20 24

152

277

367

550

705

939

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913

No. of schools

1008

ASPnet schools are hubs to promote ESD in Japan MEXT and JNCU have positioned the UNESCO ASPnet Schools as hubs to promote ESD and are working on increasing the number of member schools. In addition, guidelines for ASPnet Schools have been prepared in order to ensure their quality.

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ASPnet and ESD in Japan

Guidelines for ASPnet Schools in Japan (Summary)

i) What is expected of ASPnet Schools -Mutually learn from one another through the network. -Build an open network through collaboration with multi-stakeholders. -Widely promote ESD outside of school. -Indicate in the school management policies the efforts to implement the activities of ASPnet

Schools. ii) What is expected of hubs to promote ESD -Clarify the qualities and abilities that the schools wish to foster through ESD, and make efforts to formulate curricula that put emphasis on the process of learning that aims at problem solving. -Make efforts to improve teaching methods. -Engage in research and practice and endeavor to spread the ESD concepts.

Your everyday life will make a future.

ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) is education to cultivate leaders who will help build a sustainable society for the future. This is in the form of learning and activities whose goal is to have people view the various problems of modern society to be their own problems and to endeavor to tackle these problems in their immediate environment, and as a result, to produce new values and actions which will lead to solutions to these issues, and thereby create a sustainable society.

Environmental education

Energy education

Education on international

understanding

Education on world heritage

and cultural properties of

the region

Other related education

Basic concepts of ESD

Climate change

Disaster risk

reduction

Biodiversity

Integrated development of the environment,

the economy and society

[Knowledge, values, actions, etc.]

The themes and contents covered by the learning and activities of the ESD are not necessarily new. Rather, by viewing them anew from the fresh perspective of ESD, it becomes possible to assign the common goal of building a sustainable society to the efforts being undertaken in individual areas and to form a clear direction for the development of specific activities. In addition, linking each of the efforts together allows for increased enhancement in the development of the existing initiatives.

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How we define ESD in Japan

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Areas which Japanese ASPnet schools especially focus on

Others

UNESCO Geopark

UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve

Global Citizenship Education

Poverty

Climate Change

Biodiversity

Cultural heriatge

Food Education

Sustainable Produce and Consume

Energy

Health and Welfare

Disaster Risk Reduction

Human Rights and Peace

International Understanding

Environment

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Source: National Survey on ASPnet Schools, Jan.2018, JNCU

Message from Education Sub-Committee of JNCU

Announced in mid-September, 2017 Mainly targets educators (school teachers, principals)

and those who work with schools Advises on three most frequently asked questions.

<Contents> 1. ESD contributes to achieve SDGs 2. UNESCO Associated school as

the hubs to promote ESD 3. ESD contributes to quality

education

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Message 1: ESD contributes to achieve SDGs

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ESD is indispensable for the capacity building needed to achieve all 17 SDGs

⇒ ESD is a foundation supporting the entire Sustainable Development Agenda

Message 1: ESD contributes to achieve SDGs

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Example

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SDGs in Japanese ASPnet schools

38.87%

42.44%

35.92%

31.51%

40.76%

41.18%

40.34%

38.87%

38.45%

39.29%

26.47%

38.24%

39.50%

37.82%

41.39%

32.98%

41.60%

4.83%

4.62%

6.30%

7.14%

5.88%

3.99%

8.61%

5.25%

3.15%

8.40%

10.08%

6.93%

7.35%

5.46%

4.83%

6.30%

5.04%

22.48%

16.60%

38.87%

41.39%

24.58%

17.23%

34.66%

12.82%

8.82%

34.66%

52.94%

30.88%

28.78%

19.54%

28.78%

43.91%

25.21%

33.82%

36.34%

18.91%

19.96%

28.78%

37.61%

16.39%

43.07%

49.58%

17.65%

10.50%

23.95%

24.37%

37.18%

25.00%

16.81%

28.15%

Goal1 No Poverty

Goal2 Zero Hunger

Goal3 Good Health and Well-being

Goal4 Quality Education

Goal5 Gender Equality

Goal6 Clean Water and Sanitation

Goal7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Goal9 Industry, Innovation and…

Goal10 Reduced Inequalities

Goal11 Sustainable Cities and…

Goal12 Responsible Consumption…

Goal13 Climate Change

Goal14 Life below Water

Goal15 Life on Land

Goal16 Peace, Justice and Strong…

Goal17 Partnerships for the Goals

We will work on We just started working onWe are actively working on We will not work on

Source: National Survey on ASPnet Schools, Jan.2018, JNCU

Message 2&3: UNESCO Associated school as the hubs to promote ESD ESD contributes to quality education

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Initiatives spearheaded by UNESCO Associated Schools have led to an accumulation of ESD best practices…..

Actively use the network to share best practices and for peer-learning.

Sharing best practices is important in order to pass on teaching method

to the next generation teachers.

By integrating various themes that had been taught separately with ESD an perspectives, students’ learning became interdisciplinary and practical with closer links to local issues.

Experience-based and problem-solving learning is more often used,

encouraging more student-centered and participatory learning.

ESD contributes to quality education

UNESCO Associated Schools

Message 3: ESD contributes to quality education

ESD

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• In Japan, national curriculum standards are revised every 10 years.

• The new national curriculum standards were announced in March 2017 and are to introduced from April 2018.

• In the process of developing the new national curriculum standards, ESD was recognized as a “basic principle overarching the entire national curriculum standards”

• The preamble and general provisions of the new curriculum standards reference the ESD concept, highlighting the importance of nurturing creators of sustainable societies.

ESD and National Curriculum Standards

Higher education institutions have the ability to provide superior education resources relating to ESD. Utilizing this ability, an inter-university network named the Inter-University Network to Support the UNESCO Associated Schools Project (ASPUnivNet) was created as a partner to support the activities of the UNESCO Associated Schools.

ASPUnivNet – Inter-University Network to support the UNESCO Associated Schools Project

Advice and support offered to the ASPNet Schools as an approach which is characteristic of Japan. ① Support offered to schools to become an ASPNet School (application and activities) ② Intellectual resources of the universities are made available for the activities of the UNESCO Associated Schools ③ Support given to create a network between the UNESCO Associated Schools both in Japan and other countries ④ Promotion of cooperation between the educational institutions in the region and the UNESCO Associated Schools

Details of the activities

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Support for ASPnet Schools in Japan (1) ASPUnivNet

Okayama Univ.

Gifu Univ.

Mie Univ.

Kanazawa Univ.

Nara Univ.

Of Education

Univ. of Teacher Education Fukuoka

Tamagawa Univ.

Hiroshima Univ.

Naruto Univ. Of Education

Osaka Prefecture Univ.

Shizuoka Univ.

Miyagi Univ. of Education

Tohoku Univ.

Chubu Univ.

Hokkaido Univ. of Education

Kushiro Campus

Kyoto Univ. Of Foreign

Studies

Aichi Univ. of

Education

Tokai Univ.

Fukuyama City Univ.

Hiroshima City Univ.

Support for ASPnet Schools in Japan (2) ESD Consortium

MEXT funds the “ESD consortium” which is composed of the boards of education, universities, UNESCO-clubs together with UNESCO ASPnet schools. The consortiums are expected to promote the exchange among schools internally and internationally. Each consortium are requested to have ESD Coordinator which is expected to promote cooperation among consortium members and strengthens the ties with non UNESCO ASPnet schools and non-formal education facilities. .

Country A UNESCO ASPnet

schools

exchange exchange

UNESCO club Company

University Board of

Education

NPO

Non-formal education facilities

Non-UNESCO ASPnet schools

Country B UNESCO ASPnet

schools

In Japan UNESCO ASPnet

schools

Coutry C UNESCO ASPnet

schools

exchange exchange

Consortium

ESD Cordinator

exchange

UNESCO ASPnet Schools

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Miyagi University of Education

Chiba University

Kanazawa University

Chubu University Mie University

Nara University of Education

Okayama City Board of Education

Niihama City Board of Education

Omuta City Board of Education

ESD Consortium in Japan

Shinshu University

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Hiroshima University

Shizuoka University

Yokohama City Board of Education

• Co-organized by JNCU • The 9th Annual National Conference of ASPnet was held on

2 December 2017 in Omuta city, Fukuoka • Over 900 participants participated to exchange ideas on

many different challenges for ESD as well as activities of ASPnet schools

• Dr. Sabine Detzel, International ASPnet Coordinator of UNESCO attended and gave a keynote speech

• The 10th Annual National Conference of ASPnet will be held on 8 December 2018 in Yokohama city, Kanagawa

Annual National Conference of ASPnet

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Fellowship program visiting ASPnet schools

Fellowship program visiting ASPnet schools

"Cherry Tree Project" • Public school • Situated in Omuta City

(population: 0.1million) in Fukuoka Prefecture

• Education For Sustainable Development Award in 2017

• “Cherry Tree Project” from 2013 for becoming town active

• Promote ESD for sustainable town planning in the whole city

• All public schools in this city is ASPnet schools

• SDGs 11

Good practice of activities related to SDGs at ASPnet schools①

Yoshino Elementary School

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Education For Sustainable Development Award in 2017

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Good practice of activities related to SDGs at ASPnet schools①

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Relationship with the local district

Mutual action between children and the local community

Become town active

Local community Children

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Relationship with the local district

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Relationship with the local district

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Relationship with the local district

Expand activities into communicating with another

ASPnet schools outside prefecture

• Donated cherry seedling to Shikaori elementary school (in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture)

• For the restoration of the Great East Japan Earthquake (March.11.2011)

Good practice of activities related to SDGs at ASPnet schools①

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For the restoration of the Great East Japan Earthquake

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Good practice of activities related to SDGs at ASPnet schools③

• Public school • Situated in Tama City

(population: 0.1million) in Tokyo

• Established 5 years ago because of reorganizing

• “Aiwa-sho ESD Green Project” from 2017

• SDGs 15・17

.Aiwa elementary school “Aiwa-sho ESD green project”

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Good practice of activities related to SDGs at ASPnet schools③

• School forest • School garden

• Communicate with SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award’s first place school

Learning through practical experience

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Grow group feelings

School forest Learning through practical experience

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School forest Learning through practical experience

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School garden Learning through practical experience

Communicate with SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award’s first place school

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Communicate with SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award’s first place school

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Communicate with SEAMEO-Japan ESD Award’s first place school

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Good practice of activities related to SDGs at ASPnet schools③

• Become to thinking other’s feelings • Be able to see far into the future • Become interested in foreign countries

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Outcome of activities

Thank you for your attention !

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Japanese National Commission for UNESCO 日本ユネスコ国内委員会

Your everyday life will make a future.

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