Japanese research partnership to take root at UTS

We learn so much from each other. Our research partnership with the Nahomi Institute for the Learning Sciences’ Consortium for Renovating Education of the Future (CoREF) team came to life in June as we hosted Japanese researchers and educators at our school building for the first time.

We were so pleased to welcome Dr. Hajime Shirouzu, director of Nahomi Institute for the Learning Sciences; Dr. Moegi Saito, associate professor at Kyoritsu Women’s University; Dr. Shinya Iikubo, chief researcher at Nahomi Institute for the Learning Sciences; and Sonoko Ogawa, teacher-educator at Saitama University, for a wonderful day of collaborative conversation about future-readiness and active deeper learning in schools.

Along with UTS staff, we were also joined by two University of Toronto guests: Principal Emerita Elizabeth Morley from the Jackman Institute of Child Study Lab School’s and Dr. Rie Kijima from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

We shared ideas, learned about each other’s educational systems and worked towards forming a co-designed research project. The Japanese visitors were in Canada for the International Society of the Learning Sciences conference in Montreal, where they also met UTS donors, Richard Ingram ’61 and Satoko Shibata, who funded the Eureka! Research Institute @ UTS, instigated this collaboration and hosted a dinner with our research collaboration group and the Consul-General of Japan.

This is just the beginning of all the research, teaching and learning we will do together.

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