日本型多文化共生社会に向けた学びのデザイン―カリキュラムマネジメントの視点から―

抄録

Globalization, and the emergence of a multiethnic society in Japan, has posed an important question on how people with cultural differences should live together in this society. In order to promote a multicultural inclusive society, Japanese people also need to change their outlook as much as foreigners. This paper aims to discuss the design of educational programs aiming to promote a Japanese-style multicultural inclusive society while focusing on the Japanese majority.

First, this paper proposes curriculum management (to consider an educational goal, concrete plan, action-research on the PDCA cycle, collaboration) as a framework for educational reforms. Second, this paper sheds light on the process of the creation of a multicultural inclusive society and focuses on the processes of construction to de-construction and re-construction of “Japaneseness” as the social norm and privilege. Third, this paper introduces a case study of a new educational program in a university based on the PDCA cycle of curriculum management. In the program, students with diverse cultural backgrounds collaborate and think over different multiethnic issues. Lastly, this paper points the importance of designing a multicultural curriculum to help create a Japanese-style multicultural inclusive society.