筑波大学教育開発国際協力研究センター Center for Research on International Cooperation in Educational Development


Educational Practices to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning for the 21st Century Inspired by the International Baccalaureate Program

Announcement

2024-2_Inquiry_based_learning_inspired_by_IB.pdf


Description

Educational practices vary widely across locations, reflecting changing contexts in time and place. Nonetheless, they all share an aim to nurture the continued wellbeing of the community they serve and address any problems that threaten this. This is true for local communities grouped for example, through ethnicity, religious beliefs, or nationality. Today, in the twenty first century however, despite our membership in local communities, we all belong to a single globalized community and therefore, as members, share worldwide problems that threaten our wellbeing. These problems include the climate crisis as well as those identified in the UN`s SDGs. What changes must be made to educational practices to address these shared threats? How do the required changes relate to current local educational practices? Answering such questions requires broad and deep reflections about the nature of knowledge and learning, about what kind of knowledge and learning we value, and about the relevant skills that must then be developed as a result of these reflections.

Course Summary

In this course we will engage in activities that consider the questions and reflections identified above, look at how they have answered conceptually by organizations such as the OECD and the Earth Charter, but also engage in practices of the IBO programmes that have a mission to make the world a better place through the development of international mindedness.

Course Content, Registration and Certifications

It is a free program on SEAMEO priority areas #5 for ʻRevitalizing Teacher Educationʼ and #7 for ʻAdopting 21st Century Curriculumʼ. CRICED, University of Tsukuba, Japan, provides the certifications to participants at the end of the course.
Each online lecture will be provided on a consecutive sequence based on the course roadmap. Participants cannot skip any lesson because each lesson uses ideas which were already discussed. At the end of each lesson, participants need to do a short questionnaire for knowing how the lessons worked. Only participants that answer the questionnaire will receive the URL for the next lecture. The feedback from participants is used for evaluation of the program and attendance confirmation, but not as an evaluation of the participants.

Course Roadmap for Parts in 2024

Topic

Lecturer

Schedule

1

 The changing face of education Carol Inugai Dixon Sept 11th
2

Diversity and Multiple perspectives

 Carol Inugai Dixon

Sept 18th
3

A theory of knowledge approach

 Carol Inugai Dixon

Sept 25th
4

IB and International mindedness

 Carol Inugai Dixon

Oct 2nd

All the lessons will begin on Wednesday afternoon from 13:00 (Japan time GMT+9) through a live streaming via YouTube. Each lesson will be approximately 75 minutes long which include assessment.
Certificate will be provided for the participants who have completed all 4 assignments for the lesson by the set due date.

Registration

Registration for this course: Educational Practices to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning for the 21st century (Deadline: June 25th, 2024): https://forms.gle/6o2BPfE43F2q6xw17


Registration for the orientation on June 18th, 11:15-13:00 (GMT+9)
Please join the orientation to know more about the course and the platform.
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Contents


Institutions represented by invited speakers

This program was successfully developed through the collaboration of invited guests, participants and supporters. Prof./Dr. Jun Kawaguchi, who developed the content of this program, deeply acknowledges their collaborations.

Invited Guests:
Carol Inugai Dixon (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Nami Sasaki (Tsuru University, Japan)
Masami Migaki(International Pacific University, Japan)

With the support of:
Ai Kawamura (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Ruru Ota (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Yuko Haga (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Mika Matsuyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Video editors:
Ruru Ota (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Diego Solis Worsfold (CRICED)

Web developer:
Yoneyama Takafumi (CRICED)

and all the Participants

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