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ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program

ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program

    ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2023 

    ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2022

    ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2021

    ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2020

 ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2019

 ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2018

 ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2017

 ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2016

 ESD Campus Asia 2015

 ESD Campus Asia 2014

 ESD Campus Asia 2013 

 ESD Campus Asia 2012 

 

ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2023

ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2022

The ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2022 was held online and onsite with distinct lectures for graduate and undergraduate level students. The undergraduate program was held from August 4th-August 10th and was host to over 40 students from over 10 schools spanning 6 countries. On-site students traveled to Yoichi Eco-village to observe sustainable lifestyles. 

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ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2021

 

ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2020

 

Due to COVID-19, Hokkaido University cancelled its student acceptance and dispatch programs, respectively, in the summer and fall of 2020. Instead of the summer program at Hokkaido University, the University held the online ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program from September 14 to 16, with the participation of eight Hokkaido University students and 13 students at Beijing Normal University, Sakhalin State University and the University of Hawaiʻi.

 

The summer program at Hokkaido University is characterized by the Buddy Program in which Hokkaido University students are paired with students from the institutions to which they will be later dispatched to help each other adjust to life overseas. Although students could not enjoy these in-person interactions this year, they had a great time through the online program consisting of three lectures and one workshop.

The first lecture was given by Teaching Fellow Tyrel Eskelson (the Graduate School of Education). Under the theme of Sustainable Development as a Global Goal: Concepts, Issues, and Ideas, he talked about the histories of mankind and infectious diseases from the viewpoint of social structural issues that are related to institutional and economic units, and then stressed the significance of the basic philosophy of ESD and the need for social initiatives. The next lecture was given by Professor Jeffry Gayman (the Graduate School of Education and the Research Faculty of Media and Communication), who spoke under the theme of Rethinking Sustainable Development Post-Corona from the Issues Made Visible (and Invisible) through the COVID-19 Pandemic: with a focus on Indigenous Peoples. He said infectious disease problems are manifested as problems of social and economic disparities among indigenous communities, and urged students to view ESD issues as local problems confronting them. The next lecture was given by Associate Professor Yumiko Ohara at the College of Hawaiian Language, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Titled Socially determined health and wellbeing: COVID-19, indigenous communities and their languages and ESD, the lecture provided a great opportunity to study the historical, social and cultural aspects of issues involving the Hawaiian language, indigenous communities and infectious diseases. These lectures provided a rare opportunity for students of Hokkaido University and elsewhere to review infectious diseases issues from a sociocultural and historical perspective and develop an analytical viewpoint.

Later in the program, Dr. Nanako Iwasa (Research Fellow, Hokkaido University) hosted a workshop designed to tap students’ conceptual power to help find solutions to social issues. The online workshop provided an opportunity for a practical discussion and interactions as students tackled project issues in small groups. Students shared the achievements of their groupwork through presentations they made on the final day of the program. While the pandemic did not allow students to conduct fieldwork in Sapporo and Biratori Town, as they had in previous years, the program held using online technology enabled them to experience the depths of ESD from a different angle than usual.

The ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2020, which used the impacts of COVID-19 as part of its lecture topics, built on the achievements of the past programs and provided topics for ongoing discussions going forward.

 

Online lecture of Associate Professor Yumiko Ohara given from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

Socially distanced workshop

Online presentation made by a student of an overseas partner university

Presentation made by Hokkaido University students

 ESD2020 Campus Asia-Pacific Program

 

ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2019

The ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2019 was held for nine days from July 31 with the participation of nine Hokkaido University students and 25 students from abroad. Those overseas students were from the program’s five overseas partner institutions and five non-partner institutions: University of Science and Technology Beijing, Nankai University, Xian University of Architecture and Technology, and Northwest Normal University in China and Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia.

As a prior learning opportunity for Hokkaido University students, we provided an International Education Course that was also attended by HUSTEP students in Arts & Science Courses in English. The course was on the theme of Law and Sustainability in connection with the recent enactment of the Act on the Promotion of Measures for the Realization of a Society in which the Pride of the Ainu People is Respected. Students came up with solutions to problems confronting indigenous communities around the world based on a lecture about the present situation of Ainu people in Hokkaido given by Taichi Kaizawa, an Ainu living in Biratori Town. As in the previous year, the course was held as a joint teaching program between Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School and the School of Education to improve English communication and presentation skills.

The summer program at Hokkaido University is characterized by the Buddy Program in which Hokkaido University students are paired with students from the institutions to which they will be later dispatched to help each other adjust to life overseas. The program began with Buddy students greeting international students at the airport. On Day 2, a guidance session and campus tour were followed by a lecture on the basic philosophy of ESD and the need for social initiatives, titled “Human Nature and the Role of Institutions in Society: What can diversity teach us about society?” by Tyrel Eskelson, Specially Appointed at the Faculty of Education and an invited lecturer at the Hokkaido Summer Institute. The lecture was followed by a workshop by lecturer Sam Bamkin (De Montfort University and Tokyo Gakugei University) under the title “Values education: how schools shape identity in Japan.” On Day 3, Professor Jeffry Gayman (the Graduate School of Education and the Research Faculty of Media and Communication) gave a lecture titled “Thinking Through the Sustainability of Indigenous Peoples.”

Another characteristic of the summer program at Hokkaido University is fieldwork in Sapporo and Biratori to encourage students to consider ESD from a sociocultural perspective in line with local issues. Specifically, the students are encouraged to learn about the culture of the indigenous Ainu people in Hokkaido and learn and think about community development in Biratori Town (in Hidaka Subprefecture), where many Ainu people live, and about the promotion of Ainu policy. In 2019, students came up with themes and visited museums or other cultural facilities in Sapporo for fieldwork in Ainu culture. They also made a two-day trip for fieldwork in Biratori.

The fieldwork in Biratori began with a lecture by Professor Gayman about the town and the Ainu. The students then interviewed local residents with questions they came up with based on their fieldwork in Sapporo. The interviewees were officials at the Biratori Town Office, including deputy mayor Keiichi Endo; Shiro Kayano, director of the Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Cultural Museum; Taichi Kaizawa and Atsushi Monbetsu, who engage in farming and hunting; and Miwako Kaizawa, who relocated from Kyushu. As they talked directly with these locals who have been involved in the promotion of Ainu policy in their respective positions, students asked a lot of enthusiastic questions. On the last day of fieldwork, students created a temporary hut called kucha chise under the guidance of Mr. Kaizawa and Mr. Monbetsu. Ainu hunters used to make such huts in mountains using the trees, bark and butterbur leaves they found around them. This experience enabled the students to learn through their senses about the wisdom that has been passed down by the Ainu in the natural environment of Hokkaido.

On the afternoon of Day 9, to sum up the program, students broke into six groups and made final presentations on the theme of “The Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples and the SDGs.” Not only did they demonstrate what they had learned in the lectures and fieldwork, but they also engaged in lively discussions while comparing the circumstances in their own countries. After the presentations, a diploma and commemorative gift were given to each student, marking an end to the program with fruitful exchanges.

ESD2019 Campus Asia-Pacific HU Program

ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2018

The ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2018, held from July 18 to 27, was joined by the program’s five overseas partner institutions minus Chulalongkorn University. As a new attempt, we positioned the program as part of the Hokkaido Summer Institute and allowed participation from overseas universities other than the partner institutions. As a result, we hosted a student each from Zhejiang University and Nankai University in China and National Chengchi University in Taiwan. In total, 13 Hokkaido University students and 19 overseas students took part in the program.

As a prior learning opportunity for Hokkaido University students, we provided an International Education Course that was also attended by HUSTEP students in Arts & Science Courses in English. Since 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the naming of Hokkaido, the course was on the theme of “Why Did People Choose Sapporo As Their Place of Residence 150 Years Ago?” Students came up with answers to the question through the fieldwork conducted at Hokkaido University Botanic Garden and through a lecture about the present situation of Ainu people in Hokkaido given by Mr. Taichi Kaizawa, a resident of Biratori Town. As in the previous year, the course was held as a joint teaching program between Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School (designated as a Super Global High School) and the School of Education to improve English communication and presentation skills.

The summer program at Hokkaido University is characterized by the Buddy Program in which Hokkaido University students are paired with students from the institutions to which they will be later dispatched to help each other adjust to life overseas. The program began with Buddy students greeting international students at the airport. On Day 2, a guidance session and campus tour were followed by a lecture on the basic philosophy of ESD and the need for social initiatives, titled “Enlightenment Values in the 21st Century: How can we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?” by Tyrel Eskelson (Eurocentres Language School), an invited lecturer at the Hokkaido Summer Institute. On Day 3, Professor Jeffry Gayman (the Graduate School of Education and the Research Faculty of Media and Communication) gave a lecture titled “Thinking Through the Sustainability of Indigenous Peoples.” On the afternoon of Day 6, the students joined students of the Graduate School of Education in attending the keynote lectures of four speakers invited to teach Hokkaido Summer Institute courses offered by the graduate school.

Another characteristic of the summer program at Hokkaido University is fieldwork in Sapporo and Biratori to encourage students to consider ESD from a sociocultural perspective in line with local issues. Specifically, the students are encouraged to learn about the culture of the indigenous Ainu people in Hokkaido and learn and think about community development in Biratori Town (in Hidaka Subprefecture), where many Ainu people live, and about the promotion of Ainu policy. In 2018, students came up with themes and visited museums or other cultural facilities in Sapporo for fieldwork in Ainu culture. They also made a two-day trip for fieldwork in Biratori.

On the afternoon of Day 8, to sum up the program, students broke into five groups and made final presentations on the theme of “The Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples and the SDGs.” Not only did they demonstrate what they had learned in the lectures and fieldwork, but they also engaged in lively discussions while comparing the circumstances in their own countries. After the presentations, a diploma and commemorative gift were given to each student, marking an end to the program with fruitful exchanges.

ESD2018 Campus Asia-Pacific HU Program

 

ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2017

Before the opening of the summer program at Hokkaido University, we provided an International Education Course (one-credit summer course for preliminary study for ESD) for Hokkaido University students who would attend the ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program. The course was also attended by other students including HUSTEP students in Arts & Science Courses in English. The course included lectures by four professors and associate professors on themes closely related to ESD: social exclusion and social pedagogy, the SDGs, environmental education, and indigenous education. Students also engaged in discussions in English with the support of Tyrel Eskelson, who joined the faculty of Hokkaido University in 2017. As in the previous year, the course was held as a joint teaching program with Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School (designated as a Super Global High School). In addition to students of the secondary school attending some of the lectures, students on the course visited the school to share information about research on ESD. These were positioned as an undertaking aimed to improve the English communication and presentation skills of students of the School of Education.

 

 

The summer program at Hokkaido University was held from July 19 to 28 with the participation of 33 students consisting of 16 students from the Hokkaido University School of Education and 17 undergraduates from Korea University and Seoul National University (South Korea), Beijing Normal University (China) and Sakhalin State University (Russia). This program is characterized by the Buddy Program in which Hokkaido University students are paired with students from the institutions to which they will be later dispatched to help each other adjust to life overseas. True to its principles, the program began with meet and greet at the airport by Hokkaido University students. On Day 2, students attended a guidance session and campus tour in the morning, and in the afternoon they attended keynote lectures and discussions on social pedagogy and ESD by Professor Juha Hämäläinen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) and Professor Daniel Schugurensky (Arizona State University, USA), who were invited as lecturers for graduate courses at the Summer Institute (SI). On the morning of Day 3, students on the ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program reflected on the discussions held on the previous day.

Another characteristic of this program is its focus on ESD from a sociocultural perspective, providing an opportunity for students to learn about the indigenous Ainu people in Hokkaido and their culture and to learn and think about community development in Biratori Town (in Hidaka Subprefecture), where many Ainu people live, and about the promotion of Ainu policy. Since four years ago, the program has conducted fieldwork in the towns of Hidaka and Biratori so that students can learn about the history, culture and livelihoods of Ainu people while experiencing the natural environment of Hokkaido.

In 2017, students took a three-day trip to Biratori for fieldwork after attending a preliminary lecture and taking part in groupwork about the history and culture of Ainu people in Hokkaido and their present situations. This preliminary session was supervised by Associate Professor Jeffry Gayman of the Graduate School of Education. The fieldwork from July 22, which helped the students deepen their understanding of the Ainu history and culture, began with a lecture by Hideki Yoshihara from the Ainu Culture Preservation Division of the Biratori Town Office entitled “Preservation and Utilization of Local Cultural Resources and ESD: Examples of Measures to Preserve Ainu Cultural Environment in Biratori Town, Hokkaido.” Students also made a tour of the Nibutani Ainu Cultural Museum and listened to a lecture by Biratori mayor Mitsuru Kawakami about the town’s efforts to promote the region and Ainu policy. At the Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Cultural Museum, students listened to a lecture by its director Shiro Kayano, who talked about the history and culture of the Ainu along with his recollections about his early years. The fieldwork also provided students with an opportunity to cook traditional Ainu dishes and take a walking tour to sites of historical significance for the Ainu, enabling them to learn actively through their senses.

On the afternoon of Day 8, to sum up the program, students broke into six groups and made final presentations about various international problems hindering social development based on what they had learned through the keynote lectures, preliminary study and fieldwork. They also engaged in lively discussions while comparing the circumstances in their own countries. After the session, a diploma and commemorative gift were given to each student, marking an end to the program with fruitful exchanges.

The ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program is characterized by short-term overseas exchange study. After the summer program at Hokkaido University, five groups of two to four Hokkaido University students were dispatched to the four overseas universities, where they were reunited with their Buddy students and participated in a 10-day autumn program at the respective universities.

On February 14, 2018, the final session of the program was held, to which teachers and students of Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School and fieldwork instructors in Biratori were invited.

ESD Campus Asia – Pacific HU Program 2017

ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2016

The ESD Campus Asia Program, which started in 2011 and was joined by the education faculties of Korea University and Seoul National University in South Korea, Beijing Normal University in China and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, was relaunched in 2016 as the ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program because of the newly added participation of Sakhalin State University. The ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program 2016 drew 20 Hokkaido University students and 20 overseas students.

Prior to the ESD program at Hokkaido University, an International Education Course (preliminary study for ESD) was provided for Hokkaido University undergraduates on the program. As a new effort to improve English communication and presentation skills, the students joined HUSTEP students in Arts & Science Courses in English to attend a joint teaching program with teachers and students of Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School (designated as a Super Global High School).

The sixth ESD program at Hokkaido University was held in the same period as the Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI) from July 20 to 29, 2016. On the morning of Day 2, a campus tour was held as part of the Buddy Program, a feature of the ESD program whereby Hokkaido University students are paired with students from the institutions to which they will be later dispatched to help each other adjust to life overseas. In the afternoon, the students joined graduate students attending HSI courses in an opening keynote lecture and discussion featuring cross-cultural understanding and multiculturalism, both of which are indispensable to develop global human resources who can contribute to addressing global challenges. Designed for students to learn actively, the program also included, on Day 3 and onward, a lecture by Associate Professor Inna Korneeva of Sakhalin State University on “Current Situation of Cross-cultural Understanding in Sakhalin” and groupwork that introduced students to the idea “Think globally, Act locally” using Place-based Active Learning (PAL).

The students took a two-day trip to Biratori Town (in Hidaka Subprefecture) for fieldwork. They listened to a lecture given by Mayor Mitsuru Kawakami about the town’s efforts to promote the region and Ainu policy. They also experienced hunting to appreciate an aspect of Ainu culture and made a tour to the Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Cultural Museum, thereby deepening their understanding of Ainu culture based on what they had learned in preliminary study. On the last day, to sum up the program, those undergraduates from the six universities (including Hokkaido University) in the five countries broke into five groups and made final presentations about topics often discussed in their respective countries, including recruitment to terrorist groups, wars and confrontations in East Asia, and urban-rural educational inequality. They also engaged in lively discussions while comparing the circumstances in their own countries. After the presentations, a diploma and commemorative gift were given to each student of the five overseas universities, marking an end to the program with fruitful exchanges.

This program is characterized by short-term overseas exchange study. After the ESD program at Hokkaido University, five groups of two to six Hokkaido University students were dispatched to the five overseas universities, where they were reunited with their Buddy students and participated in a 10-day autumn program at the respective universities.

In the final session held in English at the Hokkaido University Conference Hall on February 15, 2017, those groups of students who participated in the programs held at Hokkaido University and the overseas partner universities made presentations about what they had learned in the programs. They gave an overview of the political, cultural and environmental issues facing those countries and proposed solutions from a global perspective. The session was also participated in by 34 students and four teachers of Sapporo Kaisei Secondary School with whom the program students interacted during their prior learning. The students from the secondary school made presentations sharing the results of research they conducted independently. Also attending were 14 undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members of the Seoul National University College of Education, and Shiro Kayano, Taichi Kaizawa and Atsushi Monbetsu, who served as instructors during the fieldwork in Biratori. Their astute questions and comments prompted lively discussions.

The ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program aims to create campus environments in which Hokkaido University works with its overseas partner institutions beyond their institutional frameworks to promote faculty and student exchanges and share educational assets with each other. High expectations are placed on the program producing the next generation of leaders who can think about the global challenges of creating a sustainable, safe and secure society and achieving world peace using the personal networks they build in and outside Japan through their ESD study and their shared everyday life.

 

 

ESD Campus Asia 2015

Since 2011, the Hokkaido University School of Education has hosted the annual ESD Campus Asia Program, a short-term overseas exchange study program focusing on the roles of education in the sustainable development of society, in partnership with Korea University and Seoul National University in South Korea, Beijing Normal University in China and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. The program in 2015 was held from August 19 to 28 and included a keynote lecture by Professor Emeritus Dae-Bong Kwon of Korea University, groupwork, fieldwork (to interact with Ainu people and experience their culture in Biratori Town, Hidaka Subprefecture), and the final session.

In 2015, we launched a prior learning course to enable Japanese students to explain Ainu culture in English during fieldwork to students from abroad. Tamami Kaizawa, an Ainu art designer, gave a lecture on Ainu patterns and taught how to design patterns. On the first day, she spoke about Ainu patterns and her own experiences in design. Based on the lecture, students designed original patterns on the second day and painted them on their T-shirts, bags and other belongings on the third day. The course was also attended by students on the Hokkaido University Short-Term Exchange Program (HUSTEP), with whom the Japanese students talked in English, making it a great opportunity for them to prepare themselves for the ESD program.

 

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ESD Campus Asia HU Program 2015

 

ESD Campus Asia 2014

Since 2011, the Faculty, Graduate School and School of Education have hosted the ESD Campus Asia Program, a short-term overseas exchange study program focusing on the roles of education in the sustainable development of society. The program for the academic year 2014 was completed with the final session held on January 30, 2015 where undergraduates who participated in the program presented their achievements.

The ESD Campus Asia Program 2014 began with an intensive summer course at Hokkaido University, which was held from August 17 to 26 with the participation of leading institutions in Asia with which the University has academic agreements: Korea University and Seoul National University in South Korea, Beijing Normal University in China and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. A total of 39 undergraduates—19 from Hokkaido University and 20 from the partner institutions (5 students each) participated in ESD-related lectures, workshops and discussions, all of which took place in English. Further, they also attended a two-day outdoor session held at the National Hidaka Youth Outdoor Learning Center. The Hokkaido University students who attended the intensive summer course were divided into four groups and dispatched to the four partner institutions in Asia, where they were reunited with their counterpart students and attended an intensive autumn course on ESD provided by the respective institutions (Chulalongkorn University from September 4 to 13, Beijing Normal University from September 21 to 30, Korea University from October 25 to November 4, Seoul National University from December 11 to 20).

The ESD Campus Asia-Pacific Program aims to create campus environments in which Hokkaido University works with its partner institutions in Asia beyond their institutional frameworks to promote faculty and student exchanges and share educational assets with each other. High expectations are placed on the program producing the next generation of leaders who can think about the global challenges of creating a sustainable, safe and secure society and achieving world peace using the personal networks they build in and outside Japan through their ESD study and their shared everyday life.

ESD Campus Asia 2013

ESD Campus Asia HU Program 2013

 

ESD Campus Asia 2012

ESD Campus Asia HU Program 2012

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