社会的見方・考え方の自己探究としてのグローバル教育(III) : 「開発問題」の単元構成にみるWorld Studiesの理念

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• The most important and serious issues in our contemporary world involve development issues as seen in the North-South Problems. And the most original and prominent characteristic of World Studies is a strong interrelation between acquiring global perspectives ("outward journey") and being aware of and understanding oneself ("inward journey"). In this paper, I discussed how World Studies deals with development issues and attains the aims of its education. Therefore, I selected the unit "Food comes first". Consequently, the conclusions are as follows. (1) In World Studies, this unit was constructed from the viewpoints of how "I" see and how can "I" get involved in the famine issue, which is one of the most representative of the global issues. And this unit was constructed to broaden one's view from the personal "I" to the universal "human". In this way, constructing the unit based on "I", World Studies is to combine the "outward journey" and the "inward journey", and helps children grow and continue to inquire about famine, which occurs in far away Africa, not looking on unconcernedly but as something they should be involved in. This combination of two journeys is an inevitable consequence of World Studies, which stands on a holistic paradigm and places a key concept on 'interdependence'. (2) World Studies, which is aimed at teaching younger children, is not meant to have the children understand something, but to learn how to see the world and develop skills for planning, choosing and pursuing their own futures. And World Studies holds that not only lessons but school education should be the starting point for further learning by learners themselves. In this view of education, World Studies made up for a defect in Development Education, which tended to impact a stereotyped image of the Third World.

• 日本カリキュラム学会の論文
• 1998-03-31

著者

• 木村 一子

  名古屋大学大学院

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• 社会的見方・考え方の自己探究としてのグローバル教育(III) : 「開発問題」の単元構成にみるWorld Studiesの理念

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