SECOND ESD CONFERENCE – BERLIN
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JAPANESE-GERMAN CENTER BERLIN [JDZB]
Association
of German Teachers of Geography
Hiroshima Geographic Alliance of the Japanese Society for geographical Sciences
in cooperation with
UN Decade of Education
for Sustainable Development [DESD]
German-Japanese Cooperation on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
from Tuesday, August 19th –
Thursday, August 21st , 2008
On behalf of
the Japanese participants, I thank you very much for your great organization of
the ESD Forum in Berlin last week.
The Forum was one of the best one in my life ever experienced. Our Japanese
participants returned home without any trouble,
but with a great memory and excitement of a week in Berlin.
NAKAYAMA Shuichi 24.08.08
Session 1 Implementing ESD
– Results of the First Half of the Decade and Current
Challenges Teachers are Confronted with in Germany and Japan
Barriers and Deficits with
Implementing ESD , updated Feb. 2009 see
also Survey (Implementing) in European ESD-Net
German-Japanese Cooperation: DESD Project
Dieter GROSS (Association of German School Geographers)
Front Line of ESD in Japan
Prof. NAKAYAMA
Shuichi (Hiroshima University of Economics)
Progress of ESD
Lesson Plans in High School Geography in Japan
Ass. Prof. NAGATA Shigefumi (Mie University)
Regional Strategies for
Implementing ESD – the Network in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Dr. Annegret SCHWARZ (Regional Advisor Geography,
Mainz)
ESD Self-Monitoring and Teacher
Training in Japan
Ass. Prof. URABE Masashi (Tokuyama
University)
Session 2 Subjects for ESD
curricula in Japan
Sustainable Land Use on the Flood Plain in Japan
Ass. Prof. TAKATA Junichiro
(Gifu Seitoku Gakuen
University)
Development of Sustainable
Tourism in Japan
TANIGAWA Norihiro (Hiroshima University)
Development of Organic Tea
Cultivation in Sri Lanka: The Role of ESD in Germany
KOHMOTO Daichi (Kobe Shukugawa
Gakuin University)
Session 3 Models and
Examples for Implementing ESD
Dam
Development in Japan -A Case Study of the Ohigawa
River
WADA Fumio
(Hiroshima University / Fukuyama Junior & Senior High School)
Ass. Prof. URABE Masashi (Tokuyama University)
Compact City Planning in Japan
Prof. YUI Yoshimichi, IWAMURA Takuya
(Hiroshima University)
Session 4 ESD in Higher
Education
Geography Education for
Sustainable Development and TEXT
Prof. Dr. Hartwig Haubrich
(University of Education Freiburg)
Education for
Sustainable Development within Geosciences at German Universities
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hoffmann
(Trier University)
Session 5 German-Japanese
Cooperation – an ESD Model: Transportation
The Skinkansen – Suggestions for Classroom Teaching
Hans R. STAMMER (Gymnasium zu St. Katharinen,
Oppenheim)
Eco- transportation in Japan
HAMANO Kiyoshi (Fukuyama Seishikan Senior High
School)
AMANO Shinya (Yasufuruichi High School)
TSUJIOKA Hiroomi (Sotoku Gakuen High School)
Workshop Evaluation
of ESD Curricula
Introduction: Characteristics of ESD
Curricula and an Example of an ESD Manual which could be used in German and
Japanese Classrooms ESD Curriculum Survey – individual
responses
Dieter GROSS (Association of German School Geographers)
Four Working Groups: Transportation and other subjects– an approach for a
common ESD curriculum
Group 1 Rail Transportation in Japan and Germany
Group
2 Car in the Future
Group
3 Decision-Making in School Excursions: Transport
Group
4 Our Behaviour as
Consumers