Invitation to Coauthor “S Senior High School and UNESCO Associated School”

In this ever globalizing world, school education should guarantee students to develop their ability for global governance. Being one of associated schools of UNESCO is a good chance to reexamine our education and to advance it further by re-synthesizing its teaching and learning activities under the four main themes of UNESCO Associated School:
1. World concerns and the role of the United Nations system;
2. Human rights, democracy and tolerance;
3. lntercultural learning;
4. Environmental concern.
Here I would like to invite you to practically research the concerned parts of the teaching and learning activities in S Senior High School, and coauthor “S Senior High School and UNESCO Associated School” (tentatively named). The essay will be contributed to the almanac of Osaka Prefecture Senior High School English Education Society.

The essay will be divided into several chapters. The possible chapters are:
1. Human Rights Education and the Role of the United Nations System
2. UNESCO Associate School and Content-Based Instruction
3. Content-Based Instruction in English Reading Classes
4. Content-Based Instruction in English Writing Classes
5. Content-Based Instruction and the Related Teaching/Learning Areas
6. The Class based on the Model United Nations
7. Intercultral Learning through a Joint Project
8. etc.
Each chapter will be written by one or two teacher(s) who organize(s) concerned teaching and learning activity, and the whole essay will be revised by all the coauthors.
Researching and writing processes should be started as soon as possible, the first drafts are to be written by the end of October, and revising process is supposed to be completed before Christmas.

“It is extremely advantageous to be able to bring a number of investigations under the formula of a single problem. For in this manner, we not only facilitate our own labor, inasmuch as we define it clearly to ourselves, but also render it more easy for others to decide whether we have done justice to our understanding.” (Immanuel Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason", 2003, Dover Publications, New York, p.12)
The experience of each teaching or learning activity should be researched and clearly defined about how they have worked. Their experience, once clearly defined, will enable us to apply each other, and that might enable us to enhance the further development our school education. This coauthoring project will surely empower our self-innovation ability.

Your positive response and participation will be appreciated.