From the fall semester of 2022, Sophia University has established a program in which high school and university students collaborate on exploratory learning as a university-wide common subject (common subject taken by all first to fourth year students).We aim to connect high school and university in educational practice by conducting high school-university collaborative participatory classes centered on inquiry learning.
Since 2020, Sophia Global Education and Discovery Co., Ltd. (Sophia GED), an overseas education company affiliated with the Sophia School Corporation, has been developing an online inquiry learning program for high school students called “Sekai Inquiry Club”.This initiative is a high school-university collaboration that incorporates a mechanism where high school students taking the “World Exploration Club” and Sophia University students taking the new course “Creating Inquiry-Based Learning” learn together based on inquiry learning. Participatory class. A team led by Sophia GED Education Program Director and Designated Assistant Professor Erika Shin, who also serves as a faculty member at Sophia University, comprehensively designs and develops programs and classes.
In 2022, high school students enrolled in the “World Exploration Club” will participate in classes at Sophia University for a total of four times. Guidance and interaction on November 4th, collaboration workshops for small groups of high school and university students on November 11rd and December 16th under the title of “Research Collaborative Challenge”, and conclusion and dialogue on December 11th. conduct.Students will deepen what they have learned in class with the "World Exploration Club", centering on their own research themes and progress.
High school students will have opportunities to interact with universities and university students through their own research, and will deepen their current research with the support of university students' perspectives, knowledge, networks, etc., and imagine what they will learn at university in the future. lead to doingOn the other hand, university students can develop their social skills such as facilitation and leadership, as well as cultivate the basic skills for research and social activities by learning practical inquiry learning and research surveys.It also serves as an opportunity to reconsider university learning, conscious of continuous learning that connects high school, university, and society.
Among the students taking university courses are those who studied at the "World Exploration Club" in high school and who went on to Sophia University.In this project, they are in a new position as university students to support the research of high school students, and are returning the power they have cultivated in the "World Research Club".Separately, an internship course "SophiaGED Global Internship" (provided by the Global Education Center) for third and fourth year students has also been set up, and students taking this course are involved in the planning and management of high school-university joint classes as part of the internship. .
