Japan Project
This is one of The American Forum’s
projects that takes Japan as its major focus of interest. This
project can be a workshop, seminar, study-tour, and service-learning
program depending on our resources and focuses at different times.
It is largely for high school teachers and students in New York City and its vicinity. It intends to provide
opportunities for young Americans to acquire an understanding
of Japan that goes beyond their own social
and cultural limits. It is to promote a dialogue between the youth
of America and Japan in order to deepen a mutual understanding
and form a stronger partnership for the future. It is also to
assist them in their search for new ideas and solutions for existing
problems in the world. We continuously seek for new resources,
new ideas, and new partners to develop this project.
Contact: Yongling Lu,
program coordinator
Japan and the United States: Social Issues in Post-Industrial Societies,
2002 – 2003
This program is an initiative of the
American Forum for Global Education, funded by The
Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. Working with
Wako Kokusai High School, Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai
High School and JUCEE
(Japan - US Community Education and Exchange)
in Japan, students go to Tokyo to have five-day home-stay and three-day
school visit experience as well as a three-day program to visit
NGOs and to participate in community service in Tokyo. The program focuses on engaging students
to do comparative studies on social issues such as aging populations,
unemployment and homeless concerns, disability, and changing families.
During the year in the program, students do their research projects
in New York as well as in Tokyo while participating in community service
to further their understanding of the topics they are researching.
At the end of the program, a workshop for New York students, teachers, and local communities
will be held to present their research projects.
Contact: Yongling Lu,
project director
Issues of Global Classroom
2001 – 2002
Funded by US-Japan Foundation, this
two-year project is centered on the theme "Issues of Global
Classroom". The program is designed to provide teachers and
students from high schools of New York City and its nearby areas an opportunity
to obtain a first-hand learning experience about Japan. Through a comprehensive process of
application, participants are selected to attend a pre-travel
institute and an in-country travel/study experience, and to be
involved in after-trip curriculum development. All activities
of the program are geared to preparing students and teachers to
examine the critical role of Japan in the 21st century's international
marketplace for goods and ideas. Lesson plans and study materials
are available for national dissemination.
Contact: Yongling Lu
