The seminar “Social and Emotional Learning for Holistic Education in Japan” was held in Indonesia University of Education Serang Campus on October 15, 2018. CASEER Project Researcher Kanako Kusanagi was invited as a speaker to present holistic approaches in Japanese education and its underlying philosophy. She also introduced 3S activities (Seiri (sorting), Seiton (organizing) and Seiso (cleaning)) in companies and how they were promoted not only to maintain safe working environment but also as a way to nurture problem-finding and problem-solving among its employees.
Since Indonesia University of Education Serang Campus began to focus character building and classroom relationship-building in its pre-service training of teachers, there is a strong interest in the holistic model of education. In addition, due to a recent initiative to promote service learning and community cleaning, the University is also interested in how to connect community and educational institutions. The cases of community service and activities of student teachers were also presented in the seminar. The participants were very active and engaging. The seminar was partly funded by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Challenging Research (Exploratory) 18K18627 “School as Learning Community as an approach for Education for Sustainable Development” (Head: Kanako Kusanagi).
