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亚太经合组织国际网络的活动。我们的目的是研究(i)关注了哪些教育问题，（ii）通过EDNET完成了哪些合作项目，（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，以及（iv）分析EDNET如何作为一个国际教育网络发挥作用。作为研究活动，我们的学习团队参加了APEC HRDWG、EDNET会议、APEC地区教育改革峰会、第三届APEC教育部长会议等一系列APEC会议。特别是在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并与教育部合作，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亚太经合组织会议，收集了有关亚太经合组织会议的信息和资料，并为日本文部科学省在教育研究和国际趋势信息方面提供了有益的建议。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项目和倡议的主要资料，并编写了两份报告，其中包括将这些资料翻译成日文。在这个研究项目的第三年，我们制作了最终的报告，我们主要以APEC以外的国际教育网络为研究对象，将其与APEC进行比较，并思考日本如何构建与这些国际教育网络的关系。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.