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P2 Education for Sustainable Development

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Education 5
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Distributive Justice

According to Kaufman distributive justice is “whose point is equality depend upon the members of the distributive community embracing the sprit of equality.” (Kaufman, 2014, p.205)

 

I will analyze based on distributive Justice.

According to the survey organized by Ministry of education, culture, sports science and technology, the 99.96 % of children takes compulsory education in 2022.Suprisingly, 99.64 % of children takes compulsory education even in 1948. which shows that children in Japan are able to access education equally, and distributive justice is good. For higher education, 83.8 % of youth takes it and 60.4% goes to University and Junior college. However, the quality of education, including ESD is different depends on schools or teachers.

 

Abe points out that the problem of systems to enhance ESD in Japan, for instance, vertically segmented administrative system and vague criteria for evaluating ESD. Moreover, he claims that there are no changes as ESD because some schools and teachers deliver Environment education, human rights education, Education for International understanding, and nutritional education, which already carried out as ESD, which means that they just change the name of subject without reorganizing ESD. He stresses that ESD should be implemented with based on students’ experiences. (Abe, 2009)

He explains the two ways to enhance ESD in Japan, first is top-down model and bottom-up model. Especially, ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology, Ministry of Environment and the United Nation University lead the change. As the example of bottom-up initiatives of enhancing ESD, more and more University introduces ESD, establish faculty or department which relates to the ESD, which makes a new network among universities that enhance ESD, called HESD. This is rooted in the University Social Responsibility (USR).

 

References

Abe, O. Current Status and Perspectives of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), The Japanese Society for Environmental Education, 19-2, 21-30.

 

Kaufman, A. 2014. Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage. University of Georgia. Cambridge University Press.

 

Ministry of education, culture, sports science and technology, 2022. Statistical Abstract.  20230417-mxt_chousa01-000029229-1.xlsx