A study on the development of integrated curriculum among school subjects for nurturing the forming members of gender-equal society

创建一个性别平等的社会被认为是当前日本社会的首要议程之一。在这样的社会背景下，《性别平等社会基本法》的实施，使得国家和地方政府负责管理各种方案，人民应该负责积极参与所在社区的性别平等社会的形成。为了回应当前的问题，并探讨学校教育对性别平等社会成员的贡献的可能性，我探索了通过在学校科目中开发综合课程来培养性别平等社会成员的方法。性别平等社会的创建完全取决于社会每个成员能否改变个人的性别平等意识。也就是说，作为性别平等社会的一员，我们不应该从传统的性别角色视角来参与社会活动，而应该从平等伙伴的角度来参与社会活动，通过展示自己的个性和能力来相互支持。为了实现这一目标，建立起支持男性谋生和女性经济独立的社会制度将变得至关重要。基于“独立”、“共生”和“参与”的概念，我提出了以社会学/公民学为核心学科以及包括学科、道德教育、特殊活动和“综合学习阶段”在内的其他领域的综合课程的设想。这是根据学生的发展水平对待性别平等教育的计划，将能够培养性别平等社会的成员。未来的研究应侧重于这一计划的实际应用和创建综合课程，在其中纳入每门学科的丰富知识。

The creation of a gender-equal society is considered to be one of the top agendas for the current Japanese society. Under this social background, the Basic Law for a Gender-equal Society was put into effect so that the national and local government should be responsible for administering various schemes, and the people should be responsible for the active participation in the formation of the gender-equal society in their communities.In order to respond this current issue as well as to examine the possibility of contribution to the issue from the school education, I explored the way of nurturing the members of gender-equal society through developing integrated curriculum among school subjects.The creation of a gender-equal society rests solely upon whether each member of the society can change his/her individual gender-equal awareness. That is to say, we, as a member of gender- equal society, should participate in the social activities not from the traditional gender role perspectives, but from the viewpoint of being equal partners who support each other by displaying their individual personalities and abilities. For this goal, it will become crucial to establish the social systems that support men's make-living as well as women's financial independence.Based on the notion of 'independence', 'symbiosis' and 'participation', I proposed a tentative plan of integrated curriculum among the core subject of social studies/civics and other area including subjects, moral education, special activities and "the period for integrated studies". This is the plan in which gender-equal education is treated according to the students' developmental levels and will enable to nurture the members of gender-equal society.The future research should be focused on the practical application of this plan and the creation of integrated curriculum in which a rich store of knowledge from each subject is incorporated.