Trends and Issues of International Educational Network: Focused on APEC

本研究的重点是由环太平洋经济体组成的国际网络的APEC的活动。我们的目的是研究（i）关注的教育问题，（ii）通过EDNET进行的合作项目，（iii）项目的想法和成果如何反映到每个经济体的教育政策中，（iv）分析EDNET如何作为国际教育网络发挥作用。作为研究活动，我们的研究小组参加了一系列APEC会议，包括APEC HRDWG，EDNET会议、APEC地区教育改革峰会、第三届APEC教育部长级会议（AEMM）。特别是2004年1月在中国北京举行的首脑会议上，我们的成员应教育部的要求，与教育部合作，负责管理科学和数学教育工作组，并为AEMM准备讨论文件。我们中的一些人还作为日本政府代表参加了2004年4月在智利圣地亚哥举行的AEMM会议。在那里，我们收集了有关APEC会议的信息和资料，并根据国际趋势为日本教育部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，我们收集了有关亚太经合组织各经济体的项目和倡议的主要资料，并编写了两份报告，包括将这些资料翻译成日文。在本研究项目的第三年，我们制作了最终报告，其中主要以APEC以外的国际教育网络为例，将其与APEC进行比较，并思考日本如何与这些国际教育网络建立关系。最终报告还包括与本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.