Study Room of Akihiro HIRAYAMA,
lecturer at Department of World Liberal Arts, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
社会活動への学生参加[5]――その他 /
Students' Engagement in Social Activities [5]:
Further More
'SALA DE ARTE,' a special documentary program on the public art project coordinated by NPO TORCIDA in the apartment complex at Homi area, was broadcasted on Saturday 30th May on the TV channel of Himawari network, a local cable-television company covering three cities of Toyota, Miyoshi and Nagakute. About the half of the residents of the apartment complex at Homi area are people with varieties of foreign nationalities, with those with Brazilian nationality being the largest. The program was a well-organized, thought-provoking one, getting us think about what would be significant in building the community of people with diverse backgrounds.
Two of my students are now making notes of their impressions and comments on the program. I would like to share them here sooner!
A Students' Commentary on their Participation in the Seminar “Cooperativity in Multicultural Societies for the Seeking of New Social Conditions: Possibilities of Multiculturalism and Cooperativism” Held on 8th March 2020
About one month ago, when COVID-19 started to affect Japanese society seriously, the seminar “Cooperativity in Multicultural Societies for the Seeking of New Social Conditions: Possibilities of Multiculturalism and Cooperativism” was held in a form of online conference. At first, it had been planned as an on-site seminar as usual, but the shifting situation made that plan difficult to carry out, with its organizer deciding to hold it online. The organizer was Sumire KANDA san, who bridged two organizations of Cultural Symbiosis Research Institute at Aichi Prefectural University and NPO Research Center for Regional Cooperation for the realization of the seminar.
The seminar highlighted the significance of both coping with the difficulties facing people coming from varieties of regions in the world to live in Japan from 1990s and revisiting histories of specific hardships and struggles experienced by Korean or Chinese people in the decades before 1990s, which mainly originated from historical interventions of Japan in regions in East Asia before and among the Asia Pacific War. The discussion implied that it could be beneficial to seek possibilities of reformulating Cooperativism to become a foundational concept to bridge diverse experiences of the people living in Japan. In that attempt, as the seminar demonstrated, those experiences acquired in Development Studies through the involvement of local people into the planning and realization of social reformation could serve as useful references.
Two of concerned students of mine, Kaoru ODA san and Nanako SUZUKI san, both having been participants of out-of-class lessons to read Poverty to show their intelligence, joined me to take part in the online seminar and organized a note of their brief comments on it. Here, I would like to share the file of it, which shows their earnest attitudes to learn from the discussions given in the seminar.
You could see the PDF file to click here! (the file is given in Japanese.)
A Student's Note Taken on their Participation in the Study Session “Whither Future the Sum of Multiculturalism and Education Opens the Path to?” Held on 29th March 2020
On Sunday 29th March, the final weekend of the month, the study session “Whither future the sum of Multiculturalism and Education opens the path to?” was held by the Study Group of/on Horizontal Equal Relationships at Eifuku Temple located in the city of Kariya. In the session, Sumire KANDA san, a multicultural social worker whose activities I respect a lot, coordinated a roundtable talk for concerned citizens.
Participants’ discussion and consideration went through varieties of topics regarding the conditions of livelihood surrounding people from abroad and their children in Japan: status of residence, permitted working hours, educational and vocational supports, communal family supports and so on.
Takane HOSHISAKI san, one of my students who has been conscious of diverse social issues inside and outside Japan and also participated in out-of-class lessons to read Poverty, joined the study session with me via online video conference system. Before taking part in it, I asked her to take notes simultaneously and make a sum-up afterward to deepen her understanding. She showed her excellency to have the works done in a wonderful manner! I would like to share both of her works.
You could see her works to click here! (the file is given in Japanese.)
【「JICAなごや地球ひろば」訪問(2018年2月7日)】
2018年2月7日に，世界教養プログラム・応用科目「平和構築・紛争解決」(2017年2期開講)の受講生と，「JICAなごや地球ひろば」を訪問しました。二週間ほど前の1月24日に，「2017年度 地域研究・国際研修プログラム(フィリピン)」の参加者と，研修前学習の一環として訪問したときと同じく，後藤千明さんが丁寧に応対くださいました。後藤さんからは，JICAの実施する国際協力事業や，スーダンのコミュニティ開発の現場での後藤さんご自身の経験について，お話をきくことができました。また，「地球案内人」の利根川翔子さんが、施設を案内のうえ，展示企画『HOME―故郷を離れて―』について説明くださいました。後藤さん，利根川さん，ありがとうございました！
