Comparative Study of Multicultural Education in Australia and Japan

本研究旨在通过对澳大利亚和日本多元文化社会教育的政策和实践的分析，了解澳大利亚和日本多元文化社会教育的进程，研究结果表明：在澳大利亚，多元文化教育是其学校回应多元文化社会教育需求的手段，已成为正规主流教育体系的组成部分。近年来，公民学和公民教育也成为澳大利亚学校教育的重要组成部分。新公民学和公民教育包括一套与公民的权利和责任、政府、历史、国家认同、法律的制度、公民积极参与、价值观等有关的知识和技能。在日本，国际理解学习（国际教育）主要面向日本大多数儿童。对外国孩子的教育几乎是教日语。我们需要制定新的学校教育政策和做法，使学生为文化多样性的民间社会做好准备。

The purpose of this research is to make clear the process of education for multicultural society in Australia and Japan, by analyzing the policies and practices.The results of the research are as follows : In Australia multicultural education is the means by which their schools respond to the educational needs of their culturally diverse society, and it has become an integral part of the formal mainstream education system. And in recent years, civics and citizenship education is also becoming an important part of Australian school education. New civics and citizenship education include a set of knowledge and skills related to things such as rights and responsibilities of citizens, government, history, national identity, legal system, active citizen participation, values and so on.In Japan, international understanding study (KOKUSAI RIKAI KYOUIKU) is mainly for majority Japanese children. Education for foreign children is almost teaching Japanese. We need to construct new school education policy and practices to prepare students for culturally diverse civil society.