Designing Multicultural Education Curriculum in Elementary School Through the Integrated Education

“国际理解教育”是中小学“综合教育”中的一个重要课题。但是，在目前实施的“综合教育”中，普遍存在的问题是，缺乏培养学生与不同文化背景的人共同生活、平等合作的能力的多元文化教育的观点。首先，从以下几个方面对这个问题进行探讨。1)本研究的主要目的是设计一套能克服这些问题的课程。多元文化教育课程的建构是国际理解教育不可或缺的一部分，其目的是认识个体的独特性。通过在部分小学进行的行动研究，以不同的方式实施了最初的课堂练习计划。让每个孩子的学习都成为真实的，让孩子的学习在他们的生活视野中实现，这对全人教育具有重要意义。这也是多元文化教育的关键所在。本研究的第二部分考察了龟山兼读高中的课程改革过程，介绍了该学校设计的新课程考试作为改变整个学校课程以实现多元文化共存的一种有效手段。本研究的第三部分介绍了龟山兼读高中的课程改革过程。审查了三重县教育委员会2000年12月对外国留学生教育的评估，以明确该地区的具体教育任务，不是针对外国留学生，而是针对日本学校的所有学生。

"Education for International Understanding" is commonly taken up as a theme in "Integral Education" in elementary or Junior high schools.However, a common problem is that such programs that have been practiced so far are apt to lack a viewpoint of multicultural education which foster students' ability to live together and cooperate equally with others from a different cultural background.First this problem is examined, from the following points. 1) event oriented approach, 2) culturally oriented, or tourist approach, 3) cultural essentialism.Designing a curriculum that overcomes these points is the primary theme of this study. It is advocated that the construction of multicultural education curriculum is indispensable to education for international understanding ; the aim of which is set on the point of coming to know the individual as unique.The original plan for class exercises was put into practice in a different manner through the action-research as performed in some elementary schools. It is significant to integral education that each child's learning becomes authentic ; that the children's learning is realized on the horizon of their lives. This is also key to multicultural education.In the second part of this study the curriculum revision process at the Kameyama part-time high school is examined.Examination of new school subjects designed in that school is introduced as an available device for altering entire school curriculum to having the multicultural cohabitation.In the third part of this study, the assessment of the education for the resident foreign students made by the educational committee of Mie Prefecture, in December 2000, is examined to make clear the specific educational task in this region, not for the resident foreign students but for all the students in Japanese school.