2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
From a Collaborative Case Study Database to a Cross-Border Legal Clinic: Japan's contribution to environmental law education in Asia
| Project/Area Number |
16K13334
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
イザベル ジロドウ 東京大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (70713072)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | Environmental Studies / Case-based education / Critical Env. Law / STS / Anthropocene / Interdisciplinarity |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
How might we train the new generation of environmental learners in Japan? Initially focused on the possibility to develop clinical legal education and related pedagogical devices at the regional level, this research project progressively evolved towards a more challenging reflection on the potential of multi- and pluridisciplinary teaching and learning frameworks for environmental legal education in the context of the Anthropocene. Adopting a reflexive approach, this research discusses more particularly the practical and theoretical conditions under which integrated syllabi and innovative case-based pedagogies contribute to the development of environmental legal studies in post-Fukushima Japan. Drawing on complementary fields of knowledge (mainly Critical Environmental Law, Earth System Governance, and Disaster STS) , this research explores how a set of cross-listed courses established for Japanese and “International” under- and postgraduate students enrolled in different tracks (mainly in either the Environmental Sciences or the Social Sciences and Humanities track) help both to breakdown familiar approaches to so-called “environmental problems” and turn the international multi-disciplinary classroom and cross-campus collaborative settings into new communities of inquiry.
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Research Products
(8 results)
