「いっしょにつくる」ということ ― 「これからの社会」をつくる「ことばの教室」 ―

Abstract

In the post-COVID19 era, the speed of social change will be faster than ever. The era of getting an education as a student and then working with what you learned after entering society is over, and we must continue to learn while working. In Japanese language education in such an era, it is not enough to teach Japanese only as a tool for communication, such as “I can say what I want to say.” Isn't language education the same as human resource development? In the future, we will need human resources who can use language to build connections with others, work together to solve complex social problems, and create new things. Language education is the fostering of human resources for that purpose. Peer learning was proposed as a way of learning in which learners collaborate using language to solve social issues and create a new society. The aim of peer learning is to integrate the “cognitive aspect” and the “social aspect” of learning. In the field of education, there is a tendency to emphasize only the cognitive aspect, but the social aspect should be emphasized more. The language classroom is also a society, and the creation of new cultures and societies through community generation is what the language classroom can and should do. The language classroom should be a place where people continue to be creative socio-cultural beings. The way to achieve this is to “create together”. “Creating together” means to realize the integration of cognitive and social aspects of learning, and to allow participants to create lessons “together” without being divided into teachers and learners. Instead of learning by having something passed on, we “create” something new together. It is necessary to design classrooms for that purpose.