Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015

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[O-05] Consideration of cooperation with Future Earth design and Geoscience education

Sun. May 24, 2015 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM 104 (1F)

Convener:*Satoshi Miyajima(Saitama prefectural Fukaya dai-ichi High School), Hiroaki Akimoto(Faculty of Economics,Dokkyo University), Yoshiyasu Ida(Faculty of Human Sciences,University of Tsukuba), Chair:Hiroaki Akimoto(Faculty of Economics,Dokkyo University), Masatsune Hatakeyama(Seiko Gakuin High School), Satoshi Miyajima(Saitama prefectural Fukaya dai-ichi High School)

2:15 PM - 2:40 PM

★ [O05-01] Human Geosciences and the Education and Capacity Building for Sustainable Future

*Yukio HIMIYAMA1 (1.Hokkaido University of Education)

Keywords:Future Earth, education, capacity building, sustainable development, ESD, environmental education

Global environmental research is in the process of restructuring under the framework of Future Earth, and one of the key issues of Future Earth is education/capacity building for our sustainable future. Science Council of Japan issued a proposal for it entitled Towards promotion of education and capacity building for our sustainable future. The paper discusses the key issues addressed in it, and shows the ways to go from the viewpoint of human geosciences education, including Earth science education and geography education.