⩌㤿኱Ꮫ 䜾䝻䞊䝞䝹䝣䝻䞁䝔䜱䜰䝸䞊䝎䞊㻔㻳㻲㻸㻕⫱ᡂ䝥䝻䜾䝷䝮 䠎䠌䠎䠍ᖺᗘ ᡂᯝሗ࿌఍

Global Awareness II : Global Issues and SDGsእᅜேᩍဨ䛻䜘䜛≉ู䝥䝻䜾䝷䝮ᐇ᪋᪥䠖㻡᭶㻞㻠᪥䚸㻡᭶㻟㻝᪥䚸㻢᭶㻣᪥䚸㻢᭶㻝㻠᪥ᐇ᪋᪉ἲ䠖㼆㼛㼛㼙䜸䞁䝷䜲䞁䝸䞊䝎䞊䠖་Ꮫ㒊་Ꮫ⛉㻞ᖺ బ⸨⃢㡢䚸་Ꮫ㒊ಖ೺Ꮫ⛉┳ㆤᏛᑓᨷ㻞ᖺ ᶫᮏ⪷ዉ䠄๪䠅䚸⌮ᕤᏛ㒊ᶵᲔ▱⬟䝅䝇䝔䝮⌮ᕤᏛ⛉Ꮫ⛉㻞ᖺ ຍ἞బᣅ┿䠄๪䠅ㅮᖌ䠖኱Ꮫᩍ⫱䞉Ꮫ⏕ᨭ᥼ᶵᵓ኱Ꮫᩍ⫱䝉䞁䝍䞊 㻼㼞㼍㼙㼕㼘㼍 㻺㼑㼡㼜㼍㼚㼑 ඛ⏕

Overview
Recently, we are seeing more and more "SDGs ” on TV and othermedia. To begin with, "SDGs" is an abbreviation for "Sustainable
Development Goals" and is a common goal of the international
community set by world leaders at the summit held at the United
Nations in September 2015. These goals focus on the 5Ps: People,Planet, Prosperity, Pease, and Partnership. This year we had a special
English seminar on zoom. Through this seminar, we discussed what we
can do to achieve the SDGs and presented the results of ourdiscussions.

Purpose䞉To enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of global issues inrelation to the SDGs
䞉To strengthen communication and discussion skills in English
䞉To develop research and presentation skills

Seminar Schedule

Group5䠖
This group discussed Goal 5: Gender Equality. One of the targets is“5-1: End discrimination against all women and girls”. The ways toachieve this goal is to establish a legal framework to promote,enforce and monitor gender equality. Another target is "5-4: Value
unpaid care and promote shared domestic responsibilities”. The ways
to achieve it include: 1. recognizing and valuing unpaid care anddomestic work, and 2. promoting the sharing of responsibilities
within the household and family.

Group6䠖
This group discussed Goal 4: Quality Education. In Japan, there arenine years of compulsory education. All children have the right toreceive an education. However, there are about 120 million children
in the world who cannot go to school. In this age, we have access tothe Internet, which allows us to get knowledge. The availability ofInternet access also creates a gap in educational opportunities. So
we need to think about the further widening of the educational gap.

䞉Week 1 (Jun 29) 䠖Introduction to Global Issues
䞉Week 2 (Jul 6)
䠖Introduction to SDGs
䞉Week 3 (Jul 20) 䠖Preparation of Presentation
䞉Week 4 (Jul 27) 䠖Group Presentations

Presentation
Group1䠖This group discussed Goal 2: Zero Hunger. In the world, 820 millionpeople are suffering from hunger. In order to solve this problem, weneed to understand ”Zero Hunger" properly and reduce food waste.
Furthermore, they believe that participating in volunteer activities will
also be effective.

Fig.2 Group photos

Group2䠖
This group discussed Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation. The goal isto achieve adequate and equal access to sewage and sanitation
facilities for all people and to eliminate open defecation. It aims to pay
special attention to the needs of women and girls and vulnerable
groups, and to protect and restore water-related ecosystems such as
mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers, and lakes.

Group3䠖
This group discussed Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. Now, one
third of the world’s population use dangerous and inefficient cooking
systems. Despite the significant progress of renewable energy, theworld is still falling short in providing enough clean energy.

Group4䠖
This group discussed Goal 11: Sustainable City and Communities. In
addition to the existence of slum dwellers, there is problem of theconvenient access to public transport. Japanese people are also
involved especially in this problem.

Fig.1 presentation from GFL students

Students’ Impressions• In this lesson, each group chose the topic to make presentation bythemselves, but it varied so much and it was interesting to learn
SDGs listening to their presentation. There are a lot of notices that I
guess I could not realize without their presentation.
• In this lesson, I was able to have the valuable experience of working
with my group members to create a presentation. In addition, I wasable to understand the SDGs by giving a presentation and listening
to other groups' presentations. It also gave me an opportunity tothink about how to respond to global issues.
• This lecture was a wonderful experience for me. I learned about thegoals we need to achieve in order to live. By discussing what we cando to achieve those goals, we were able to learn more about them.
I would like to use this experience to do what I can in my life.

Acknowledgment
This program gave us a lot of knowledge about SDGs. Furthermore, it helped us to acquire presentation skills in English. We would like to thank Ms.
Neupane for her lecture and all the people involved.