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Policy ActionsPolicy Actionson Environmental Educationon Environmental Education
in Japan in Japan
November 28, 2013
Ministry of the Environment
Japan
Law: 1.Environmental Education Law (EE Law)
July 2003
“Environmental Education Law”(The Act on Enhancing Motivation on Environmental Conservation and Promotion of Environmental Education. former law) enacted
Amended “Environmental Education Law”(The Act on Enhancing Motivation on Environmental Conservation and Promotion of Environmental Education) enacted
October 2012
June 2011
Amended law came into force on a full scale
Basic Principle of the EE lawEnvironmental conservation efforts, encouragement of willingness for environmental conservation and environmental education shall be performed by appropriate sharing of roles and cooperation on an equal footing among various entities for construction of sustainable society.
Main points of the amending* Promotion of the collaborative activities* Enhanced of environmental education in school education etc.
Law: 3. Progress of Environmental Education(EE) in School Education
2011 Jun, Amended EE Law (Law for Enhancing Motivation on EnvironmentalConservation and Promoting of Environmental Education)
Stipulating the promotion of EE at home, in school, in the workplace and in the community and enrich training programs for teachers, the development of teaching materials and information service etc.
2012 Jun, Amended the basic policy based on EE Law Stipulating the ability natured and the element required by EE in addition, and the importance of cooperation and collaboration among government, private bodies, experts and schools.
2006 Jun, Amended Basic Act on Education
Stipulating to foster an attitude to respect life, care for nature, and contribute to the protection of the environment as one of the purposes of education
2008 – 2009, Amended Education Ministry’s guidelines (enforcement in series from Apr 2011 )
(Example: learning content of social studies)Elementary School: workings of forest resources to conserve national land and prevention of natural catastrophe / Junior High School: relationship between natural environment and life and industry for people in the community / Senior High School: discussion of problem over environment, resources and energy
Environmental Education in Educational Policy
Collaboration between MOE and MEXT is essential
Environmental Education in Environmental Policy
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Law: 2. Support of the Collaborative Activities
MOE has “Global Environment Outreach Centre (GEOC)” and “Environmental Partnership Office (EPO)”. These centers are based on EE Law (Article 19) for promoting the collaborative activities effectively.
Functions of the Centers(1)To collect and provide information(2)To give advice on the manuals and other materials for the training of human resources(3)To provide opportunities for exchange of information and mutual communication among the citizens and private organizations, etc.
Map of GEOC and EPO
GEOC(+EPO Kanto)
EPO
Project: 1. Main domestic projects to promote ESD
Developing Capacity Building for Sustainable Regional Development
This project is run by collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science (MEXT), and promote the following activities.
(1) Develop 20 environmental education programs with ESD idea for elementary and junior high school students.
(2) Hold workshops in each prefecture (Japan has 47 prefectures), with teachers, NPOs, businesses, and government, etc., to arrange the programs for their regions.
(3) Implement the programs at school in each region.
Project: 1. Main domestic projects to promote ESD
Plus
+ESD ProjectPlus
This project helps “visualizing” and “connecting” of ESD network.
(1) +ESD Project is a system to register domestic local ESD activities on a website for visualizing their activities.
(2) MOE organizes ”ESD Learning Forum” to gather those who are engaged in the registered ESD activities or assistance projects to encourage mutual learning and cooperation and building network.
Project: 2. International projects to promote ESD
ProSPER.NetProSPER.Net
13th TEEN Meeting(Sendai City, Japan, Nov 2012)
Place Certificated as RCE
1. Regional Centre of Expertise on ESD: RCE
2. Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research Net (ProSPER.Net) • Development of Environment Human
Resources in Asian and Pacific islands’ Graduate Schools
• + 30 Organizations, As of November 2013
3. Tripartite Environmental Education Network (TEEN)• Environment Cooperation among
Japan, China and Korea :
October November
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
sat sun mon tue wed thu fri sat sun mon tue wed thu
Okayama-city
Aichi PrefectureNagoya-city
Project: 3. UNESCO World Conference on ESD 2014
Events in Public Hall / CLC
(Community Learning Center)
UNESCO SchoolWorld
Convention
Youthful Forum Move over,
Excursion e.t.c.
Stakeholders Conference
ESD week opening ceremony
ESD week closingCeremony
ESD week※The above is tentative schedule and other events by NGOs/ NPOs would be planned.
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Follow-up
Meet ing
Cabinet Minister Meeting
and Overall Coordinating
Meeting
Move over,Excursion
e.t.c.
RCE Conference