2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Global Issues, Local Issues: The SDGs and Social Justice in Japan and Abroad
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23K00665
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| Research Institution | Kindai University |
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Principal Investigator |
ロバート シェリダン 近畿大学, 農学部, 准教授 (70648245)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
田中 キャサリン 兵庫県立大学, 国際商経学部, 准教授 (50740049)
スワイヤー ロバート 近畿大学, 文芸学部, 講師 (80783464)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Keywords | SDGs / Social Justice Issues / EFL Education / Global Education / Culture in EFL |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Significant progress has been made on this project. Our website was established to provide open access to our materials and results. Version 1.1 of the SDGs Service List with access to the electronic study sets for these words, and our initial classroom materials consisting of four lessons, inclusive of readings and activities written by two of the researchers, have been shared there. In presentations, our materials were shared with educators at other universities in Japan and abroad. Additionally, two of our researchers authored a paper on social justice and language education in Japan that will be published in an international, peer-reviewed journal in May. Our findings suggested important directions for our future material development including how our interviews should be approached.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
We have done significant research and conducted two studies. One of these studies will be published in an international, peer-reviewed journal in May 2024, and we aim to send the manuscript of our second study to another international, peer-reviewed journal for review sometime in mid-2024.
While there has been a slight delay in making many materials available on our website, we continue to make progress in publicly sharing the materials we develop and our research results. We have ended the year by developing a list of questions to serve as the basis of our interviews, which we will begin as the project's next phase. We have also started to narrow down activists who will share their work with us to develop into lessons that can be shared on our website.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
After developing general research questions, in the next academic year, we will begin to conduct interviews with SDG and social justice activists in Japan. As we finish the interviews, we will develop lessons around them and make these materials also available on our website. We will also continue to pilot the materials in classes and publish our results and findings in terms of motivation and culture. In presentations, we will continue to share our materials with educators at other universities in both Japan and abroad.
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| Causes of Carryover |
We were granted funds for travel to conduct interviews with social justice activists and experts in a variety of fields. However, before doing this, we decided it was important to ask students which topics they were most interested in learning about. From our students' preferences, we then narrowed down a list of activists who will share their work with us to be developed into lessons to be shared on our website. We ended the current year by developing a list of questions to better serve as the basis for such interviews. We will use any funds carried over from last year for this purpose.
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| Remarks |
This is an open-access website to share our materials so that educators can freely use them in their classrooms. We will also use this website as a platform to share our research results.
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