Development of handmade original content and school activity under reasonable accommodation

― Collaboration with foreign colleagues ―

Abstract

　Under the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, careful and warmhearted supports corresponding to each individual difficulty are desirable especially at school education. The present author has been creating handmade original teaching materials with Information Communication Technologies (ICT) like dot codes that can handle multimedia, EPUB3 e-books with Media Overlays, and Augmented reality, and conducting various school activities in collaboration with teachers. In the present paper, the collaborations with foreign schoolteachers and researchers are described. Otsuma Women’s University has invited a kindergarten teacher (Mrs. Mai Tamimi) of Sultan’s School, Oman, and the state-of-the-art know-how to create handmade original teaching materials was passed to her. In September 2016, the present author visited Professor Jin Ye, East China Normal University, China, and in the middle of March in 2017 also visited Professor Paek Hwa Moon, Busan Women’s College and Professor Young-Han Kim, College of Education, Daegu University, Korea, where he gave invited talks and hands-on seminars to pass his know-how to the faculty staffs and students at their universities. These visits promoted collaborative research works in developing handmade original teaching materials for the children with the handicapped. The present author now hopes that mutual exchange programs for students and faculty staffs will result from the present collaborative research works with these foreign universities and schools.