(IS) “If the world were a village of 100 people”

～Learned world circumstances through our experiences～

The 1st year students carried out “If the world were a village of 100 people” as the second unit of “Learn about the world” on Jun 19. We understood “diversity” of the world and developed our thinking with a view to a better way of the world. We did this by learning tragedy which was caused by the low literary rate and the harmful effects of expanding gaps between rich and poor. This activity was held by cooperating with IVY, incorporated non-profit organization in Yamagata Prefecture in addition to Sendai Tourism, Convention and International Association. As one of simulated experiences, they realized an imbalance of wealth distribution in the world by numbers of biscuits which they got (One group got about 70 biscuits against another group who got only half a biscuit) and we are surprised by the big difference.

It was a good opportunity to learn “An appropriate world view” for the 1st year students. It seems that they moved a step closer to being “Global Citizens”. We are planning to learn “The world food situation” as the third unit in second semester.

2 teachers cultivated cooperating organization this time. They visited Samakki withayakhom school (combined junior and senior high school) and Chiang Mai University at Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand, Ubon Ratchathani University at Ubonratchathani in the northeast of Thailand and we decided to push forward linkages and cooperation for a research task which will start from 2015.

　　
Discussion about the world　　　　　Student who takes poison　　　　　Students who got biscuits
in 30 years　　　　　　　　　　　　not knowing it

Students who are surprised by wealth distribution