Published: 2020/10/22

1. What we want students to know / learn / gain in our SDGs program

Through this SDGs program, we would like *students to..

A ) know and learn about the SDGs’ pledge of “leave no one behind”
The goal of this program is not only for *students to know about the slogan itself, but also for them to learn about the real human lives in the world and realize the fact that this slogan reflects their lives

B ) know and learn about many aspects of the issues happening in the world
In this program, we share the issues happening in each country with the Japanese students and think about the issues from different perspectives. There, we would like students to realize that those events are happening in “our world”, not “somewhere in the world”.

C ) think about the issues in an inclusive way
The goal of this program is to encourage students to follow a direction in which
-how we can all be happy, rather than how I/my country can be happy
-how we can help each other

*students=participants of this program from Japanese schools

2．Important attitudes towards the issues in our SDGs program

Tolerance
To deal with the social issues in the program, attitudes stated below are required to every participant.
-Try to be patient and try to understand others
-Try not to judge others / do not to give decisions of good/bad opinions
-Try to think about the different opinions as different points of view

Lastly…
In real life, we often find it very difficult to take those things above into action.
There are many conflicts, paradoxes, fights, destructions and abuses surrounding every social issue.
In this program, what we would like to do is not to give students certain answers, but first provide them the chance to know, and give them the opportunity to share what they feel, think through the conversation with international students.
We think that through conversation, we can learn from each other, try to understand, and start thinking about small things that they can do.
Needless to say, it is not an easy process, but we think those small steps make “our” future better.

Tomonokai Co.,Ltd.
Global Education team
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