Curriculum design and materials development for learning about migration among countries including Japan, Korea, and Brazil

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The purpose of this research is to develop a curriculum model of comprehensivemulticultural education under the theme of 'international migration' as well as to make teaching materials useful for school setting from elementary schools to universities and for museums. First, classifications of teaching materials are reviewed. Second, key concepts for migration study are extracted. Third, actual materials,'reading materials' and 'KARUTA', are developed. Based on the fact that both Korean and Japanese migrated to Brazil in theirhistory, the research was conducted by interviewing a Japanese-Brazilian and a Korean-Brazilian to begin with. Then, non-Japanese people living in Japan were also interviewed, who contributed to develop reading materials. In addition,'KARUTA' was created for children with Brazilian background both in Japan and Brazil. Lastly, both of thesematerials were used at high schools, universities, and at the educational settings in the society in Korea, Japan and Brazil.