Shunpei Yaoita Laboratory of the Faculty of Community Policy, Shukutoku University (Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture) has created its own teaching materials for "sovereign education" mainly for high school students in response to the reduction of the voting age to 18 years or older.The text is published on the Internet.The teaching materials are in the form of worksheets that can be used in class, and are characterized by the purpose of having students discover and think about problems in modern society and find better "answers".

 The published teaching material is entitled "Text to acquire the power to choose the future" and has seven themes of "economy", "region", "finance", "social security", "policy related to children", "education", and "working style". preparation.It is designed to enhance your ability to choose where to vote.
For example, in the text of "finance", newspaper articles are collected with keywords such as "budget" and "finance sustainability", and students are made to study in advance.Next, the class will be divided into groups of 4 to 5 people to exchange opinions on "Is it necessary to raise the consumption tax?" And check more detailed materials.Based on the opinions expressed on that basis, the flow is that by giving an opportunity to think about policies by summarizing the current situation, issues, and things to be done, it becomes possible to think independently about social issues. ..

 In addition, we have prepared a 50-minute version and a 110-minute version of the "How to proceed with the workshop" manual and a scoring table "Rubric" to measure learning outcomes, with the awareness that teachers will use them in actual classes.The scoring table has evaluation sheets in XNUMX fields such as "ability to read data", "ability to propose solutions", and "ability to present", and after completion, you can fill in not only yourself but also other students.It is a mechanism that makes it easier to understand the difference between self and other evaluations, the points to be improved, and the presence or absence of growth if the number of times is repeated.

 The reduction of the voting age to 18 years or older was decided by the revision of the Public Offices Election Law in June 2016, and will be applied to the Upper House election this summer.Last year, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications created supplementary teaching materials that included debates and mock election methods, and distributed them to high schools nationwide. I thought that there might be cases, and while borrowing the ideas of the students, I worked on creating a text that was easier to use.

 The textbook is a teaching material that is supposed to proceed in a "workshop" format, and if the schedule can be adjusted, it is possible to dispatch a facilitator from the university as a lecture on delivery.

Reference: [Shukutoku University] Teaching materials for sovereign education "Text to acquire the power to choose the future"

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