2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A comparative study of citizenship education and multicultural education in Japan and Australia

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21530874
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology of education
Research Institution	Tokyo Gakugei University
Principal Investigator	MISE Chikako 東京学芸大学, 国際教育センター, 准教授 (80282309)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	教育学 / シティズンシップ教育 / 多文化教育 / オーストラリア
Research Abstract	In this study, the author examines the current status of citizenship education and multicultural education in a multicultural society, specifically focusing on the state of Victoria in Australia, and Japan. Victoria has practiced more organized and advanced citizenship and multicultural education, compared to other states in Australia. Victoria state government takes a new strategy ; education for global and multicultural citizenship. It provides multiple perspectives for introducing global and multicultural citizenship education to the school curriculum. And its aim is to educate young Australians with high language ability and cross-cultural literacy. In Japan, we have some practices of citizenship education. But no one takes account of multicultural perspective or cross-cultural literacy.

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