The Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on Teacher Education for ESD:
Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Education
Co-organized by Okayama University, UNESCO Bangkok, INTEI (UNESCO Chair at York University),
Okayama City, RCE Okayama and Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU)
Supported by ESD Resource Center of Japan(Okayama, 27 – 29 November 2018)
Programme Schedule
Participants are to bring:- The teacher competency framework of his/her institution.
- The curriculum policy of her/his institution.
Day 1 (Tuesday, 27 November 2018)

Venue

9:00 – 9:30

RegistrationMeeting Room

9:30 – 10:00

Opening Ceremony MC: Eriko Shimomura (Okayama University)

4th Floor

Welcome remarks by:Faculty of Education

1) Hirofumi Makino, President, Okayama University

Okayama University2) Mitsuhiro Ikehara, Deputy Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
3) Hirofumi Abe, Chairperson, RCE Okayama1

10:00 – 10:30

Agenda 1: Introduction and orientation to the workshop
Introduction and orientation to the meeting by Hiroki Fujii (Okayama University).
The session will introduce a tentative ESD teacher framework developed from the fourframeworks prepared through the group work in Bandung.

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 12:00

Agenda 2: Sharing country experiences

Meeting Room

Facilitator: Sun-Kyung Lee (Cheongju National University of Education); Ushio Miura 4th Floor(UNESCO Bangkok)

Faculty of Education

1) Participants will break into groups to share country experiences and discuss similarities

Okayama Universityand differences with regard to ESD integration in teacher education and relevant nationalpolicies.
2) Each group will present the outcome of group work in the plenary, followed by discussion.
The participants will exchange their respective institutions’ teacher competency frameworks,and discuss them against the tentative ESD teacher framework introduced in Agenda 1. Any
additional aspects that can be added to or modified in the framework? Any elements that canbe associated with or relevant to any aspects of the framework?
12:00 – 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 – 17:00

Agenda 3: Field visit

Sankun Elementary

Participants will visit an elementary school to obtain firsthand information through observation,

School,interviews and small group discussions.

Okayama City

Welcome receptionRecent Culture Hotel

18:30 –2Day 2 (Wednesday, 28 November 2018)
9:00 – 11:00

Okayama University ESD Lecture Series

Lecture Hall

Organized by Okayama University ESD Promotion Center

4th Floor(See page 6)

Faculty of Education
Okayama University

11:00 – 11:15

Break

11:15 – 12:00

Agenda 4: Review of field visit

Meeting Room

Facilitator: Ushio Miura (UNESCO Bangkok); Kiichi Oyasu (ACCU)

4th Floor

Participants will review and reflect on the field visit.

Faculty of Education
Okayama University

Participants will review the field visit against the tentative framework introduced in Agenda 1.
12:00 – 13:00

Lunch BreakRevision of the tentative framework, reflecting comments and inputs received in Agenda 2 andAgenda 4.

13:00 – 15:00

Agenda 5: Development of a draft ESD teacher framework

Meeting Room

Facilitator: Ushio Miura (UNESCO Bangkok); Kiichi Oyasu (ACCU)

4th Floor

Participants will break into groups to discuss the details of the framework.

Faculty of Education
Okayama University

Introduction: In the plenary, the revised framework will be presented, and discussed briefly.
Further changes will be made if necessary.
Group work: Each group will be assigned to discuss the details of one of the components of therevised framework, in other words, competencies that constitute the component.
15:00 – 15:15

Break3

15:15 – 17:30

Agenda 6: Development of a draft ESD teacher framework (cont.)

Meeting Room

Facilitator: Ushio Miura (UNESCO Bangkok); Kiichi Oyasu (ACCU)

4th Floor

Each group will present the outcome of the group work in the plenary, followed by discussion

Faculty of Educationand synthesis.

Okayama UniversityDay 3 (Thursday, 29 November 2018)
9:00 – 10:45

10:45 – 11:0011:00 – 12:00

Agenda 7: Preparing blueprints of ESD teacher education programme
Facilitator: Tomonori Ichinose (Miyagi University of Education); Munirah Ghazali (UniversitiSains Malaysia)
Participants will break into groups to prepare possible blueprints of ESD teacher education BA
an MA programmes that respond to the ESD teacher framework developed on Day 2.

Meeting Room
4th Floor
Faculty of Education
Okayama University

09:00-09:10 Introduction
09:10-09:45 Individual work to reflect the ESD teacher framework in the respective institution’s
curriculum policy.
09:45-10:45 Group work: exchange the outcomes of the individual work, discuss and commenton each other’s work against the ESD teacher framework developed on Day 2. Modify and add
components to the framework as appropriate.
Break
Agenda 8: Sharing blueprints of ESD teacher education programme
Facilitator: Tomonori Ichinose (Miyagi University of Education); Munirah Ghazali (UniversitiSains Malaysia)
Each group will present the outcome of the group work in the plenary, followed by discussion.

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 – 13:45

Agenda 9: Action planning
Facilitator: Jestoni Babia (University of San Jose - Recoletos); Toshinori Kuwabara (OkayamaUniversity)
4Meeting Room
4th Floor
Faculty of Education
Okayama University
Meeting Room
4th Floor
Faculty of Education

Participants will prepare action plans to introduce and implement the ESD teacher education

Okayama University

programme designed in the morning sessions.
Individual work to plan the steps to introduce and implement the curriculum policy designed inAgenda 7.
13:450 – 14:00

Break

14:00 – 16:00

Agenda 10: Sharing action plans
Facilitator: Jestoni Babia (University of San Jose - Recoletos); Toshinori Kuwabara (OkayamaUniversity)
Participants will share in the plenary the action plans prepared in the previous session.

16:00 – 16:30

Participants will share their action plans in a panel format, with a moderator/discussant for eachpanel. Each action plan presentation should be limited to 5 minutes and 1 slide.
Closing Ceremony MC: Hiroko Shibakawa (Okayama University)
1) Closing remarks and the awarding of certificates of participation, Yukari Mimura, Dean,
Graduate School of Education, Okayama University
2) Closing remarks, Charles Hopkins, UNESCO Chair at York University
3) Vote of thanks, Ushio Miura, UNESCO Bangkok

5Meeting Room4th Floor
Faculty of Education
Okayama University

Okayama University ESD Lecture Series
Organized by Okayama University ESD Promotion Center
Date 28 November 2018, AM 9:00-11:00
Venue Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Faculty of Education, Okayama University
Invited Speaker Prof. Charles Hopkins (UNESCO Chair at York University, Canada)International network of teacher education institutions to address sustainability
Prof. Marcus Grace (University of Southampton, the United Kingdom)
Teacher education for ESD in context of Europe
Prof. Utak Chung (Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding, Republic of Korea)
Achievement of the SDG Target 4.7 through linking ESD and GCED
MC: Hiroko Shibakawa (Okayama University)
Fee No charge for participation
Language English

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