Trends and Issues of International Educational Network: Focused on APEC

本研究聚焦于环太平洋经济体组成的亚太经合组织国际网络的活动。作为研究活动，我们的研究小组参与了一系列亚太经合组织会议，包括亚太经合组织人权工作小组会议、亚太经合组织区域教育改革高峰会，以及第三届亚太经合组织教育部长会议。特别是，对于2004年1月在北京举行的中国峰会，我们的成员应教育部的要求并与其合作，负责管理科学和数学教育工作组，并为AEMM编写讨论文件。我们中的一些人还以日本政府代表的身份参加了2004年4月在智利圣地亚哥举行的亚太经合组织会议，收集了有关APEC会议的信息和材料，并根据国际趋势向日本文部省提供了教育研究和信息方面的有用建议。通过参加这些会议和在互联网上获取信息，我们收集了有关APEC项目和经济体倡议的原始材料，并编写了两份报告，包括将这些材料翻译成日语。在本研究项目的第三年，我们制作了最终报告，主要是以APEC以外的国际教育网络为研究对象，将其与APEC进行比较研究，并思考日本如何与这些国际教育网络构建关系。最后的报告还包括与这项研究相关的有趣材料的翻译。

This study focused on the activities of the APEC of international network comprised of the circum-Pacific economies. We aimed to examine (i) what educational issues had been focused, (ii) what cooperative projects had been done through EDNET, (iii) how the ideas and outcomes of the projects had been reflected to educational policy of each economy, and (iv) to analyze how EDNET was functioning as an international education network.As research activity, our study team participated in a series of APEC conferences including APEC HRDWG, EDNET meetings, Summit on Education Reform in the APEC Region, and Third APEC Education Ministerial Meeting (AEMM). Especially, for the Summit held in Beijing, China, January 2004, our members took charge of managing a working group of science and mathematic education and preparing discussion papers for the AEMM at the request of our Ministry of Education and in cooperation with it. Some of us also attended the AEMM held in Santiago, Chile, April 2004, as Japanese Government representatives for the Meeting, where we collected information and materials on APEC conference as well as provided useful suggestions in term of educational research and information based on international trends for the Japanese Ministry of Education.Through committing to these conferences and getting information on the Internet, we have collected primary materials on APEC projects and initiatives by the economies and produced two reports including translation of these materials into Japanese. In the third year of this study project, we produced the final report in which we mainly took international educational networks other than APEC to develop our study comparing them with APEC and to think how Japan could construct relationship with those international educational networks. The final report is also included translation of interesting materials relevant to this study.