Junko Okazaki

A Draft International Implementation Scheme for United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014 was published on October 2004 by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), and United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014): Implementation Scheme by UNESCO followed on October 2005. Osaka Kyoiku University has supported a forest experience learning of elementary schools at Kashiwara city since 2002. The forest experience learning is related to the decade of education for sustainable development by clarifying the education for sustainable development presented in the "United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014 Draft International Implementation Scheme".

We conducted the floristic survey in Mt. Takao (Kashiwara city, Osaka Pref., Japan) of 277.7m high from 2003 to 2005. One hundred and sixty-one taxa were collected and those were included 141 species, 3 subspecies, 15 varieties, 1 forma and 1 hybrid. The number of species distributed in Mt. Takao was relatively little. These might be caused by it's poor habitat diversity since most of the places in this forest had used to be derelict grape farms about 20 years ago and forested by the Osaka Prefecture Government and the Kashiwara Government from 1989-1991.

type:Article 教育大学としての社会貢献活動の一つとして,本学では2002年度より柏原市の小学校に布ける森林体験学習を支援してきた。この取組は1993年以来,柏原市と大阪府中部農と緑の総合事務所が柏原市内の小学校を対象に行なってきた森林体験学習を,小学校への総合的な学習の時間導入を契機に,大阪教育大学への協力要請に基づいて開始したものである。大阪府においては大阪府新農林水産業振興ビジョンにおける「大阪の彩を創ろう」の一環として,中部農と緑の総合事務所が柏原市で取り組む「教育連携タイプ」の地域の森づくり活動である。本学においては,新たな時代に求められる実践的な教員の資質能力を持った学生の育成を目指す活動事例ともなっている。いくつかの機関が連携して協働事業を展開する場合,各機関の目指す目標が一致するとは限らない。それぞれが異なる目標を持って関わる協働事業の実践事例として,柏原市高尾山創造の森をフィールドとした森林体験学習のこれまでの活動を整理・分析することにより,各機関がそれぞれの明確な目標を持って協働事業に取り組むことの重要性を指摘する。 Osaka Kyoiku University has supported forest work-study programs of elementary schools at Kashiwara city since 2002, as an activity of contribution for society. In order to perform this activity at the Periods for Integrated Study, Kashiwara city and Osaka Prefectural Central Office for Agriculture-Forestry Promotion and Nature Conservation, who had continued the activity at Kashiwara since 1993, requested Osaka Kyoiku University to support the activity. From the Osaka Prefectural point of view, this activity is a kind of "local Forest-making project in cooperation with education" proceeded at Kashiwara by Osaka Prefectural Central Office for Agriculture-Forestry Promotion and Nature Conservation in a project called "Let's produce rich-green Osaka" which is one of six projects in a "New Promotion Vision in Primary Industries related to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries". For Osaka Kyoiku University, this activity also provides an opportunity-to nourish students with an ability and a character indispensable for practical teachers in a coming new age. In a case of cooperative promotion of activities by some organizations, the purpose of the activity for each organization does not always agree. As an example of the cooperative activity with different purposes for each organization, the activity to support forest work- study programs performed at the Creative Forest on Takao Mountain in Kashiwara is focused and analyzed. An importance for each organization to have clear purpose for the cooperative activity is pointed.

We investigated the educational effect of the forest-working environmental educational programs for the integrated studies, which have been conducted several elementary schools in Kashiwara, in collaboration with Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka Prefectural Central Office and Kashiwara City Office. The results of the survey of the elementary students attitudes toward these learning both in 2004 and 2005 showed that most of the students were fully satisfied with these programs. And they also indicated that these programs might be highly effective to inspire the motivation of learning of the environmental education in the students. Especially the participation of the undergraduate students of Osaka Kyoiku University in these studies would give the large educative effects in these programs.