In Shibuya Ward Rinsen Kindergarten and Elementary School, children with various family background, life experience and personal history are enjoying their school life together. Designated as kindergarten and school to promote human rights education and education of Olympic and Paralympic Games from Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education in the school year 2015 and 2016, goals were set to improve whole process of education. In school year 2016,“competence to commit, accept and connect each other”became the key words of our project. Efforts were made to improve human rights education by introducing systematic curriculum design and active learning. Learning about gender diversity is realized as a part of eight years’ human rights education, in which children learn how to eliminate discrimination and prejudice to such people as the elderly, those with handicaps and foreign background. 5th grade pupils conducted research and presentation on gender diversity of human being in the context of understanding diversity in a lesson unit on “Tomorrow that we connect”in the Hour of Comprehensive Studies.
