The first session of the public lecture series “Building a Multicultural Education for the Future: Toward a Coexisting World” was held on February 14, 2025.

This was the first public lecture organized by the Multicultural Education Project and took place from 13:00 to 17:00 in the First Conference Room, Main Building of the Faculty of Education, Kyoto University (Yoshida Campus). We were honored to welcome Associate Professor Kazuhiro Kudo from Dokkyo University as a guest speaker.
In addition to Professor Kudo, two members of this project also gave presentations. The presenters and their titles were as follows (in order of presentation, honorifics omitted):
・Joonha Park (Lecturer, Office of Global Education Development)
Toward a Mutually Inclusive Society: A Social Psychological Perspective on Multiculturalism
・Thomas Brotherhood (Lecturer, Course in Educational Sociology)
Building Foundations for a Multicultural Japan: Opportunities Arising from the Instability of the International Higher Education “Market”
・Kazhuhiro Hudo (Associate Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dokkyo University)
Educational Practices that Foster the Ability to Engage in a Multicultural Society: Insights from Transition Studies


