Developing new education models to promote global human resources at Japanese schools abroad

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26381141
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Mejiro University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Gunei 目白大学, 人間学部, 教授 (20205909)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: グローバル人材 / 海外子女教育 / 日本人学校 / 国際バカロレア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to find types of global human resources Japanese schools abroad can promote through the research and its analyses at Japanese School. It was found that main four types of such human resources are; (a) persons with both English and global capability, (b) bicultural and bilingual persons who bridge the two (local and Japan) countries, (c) persons who become leaders in the local community, (d) persons with pro-Japan attitude. This article examines various initiatives that have been made to develop such human resources and discuss challenges in developing new education models for Japanese schools abroad by a case study in Hong Kong Japanese school.

Free Research Field

異文化間教育学