Thank you for visiting this “Collaborative Sustainability Education” blog by me, Hisayo, who is an international student of the Master of Education, Education for Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

Please check our team projects through the website:Education for Sustainability team projects, especially, Tackling loneliness where I worked with two other team members.  Here is our own team blog site: Alone Together.  Also, my own blog site, Don’t Be a Stranger.

Sustainability Harmonist page records my individual project which carried our team project topic “loneliness” but adding the concepts of “Ikigai (purpose of life in Japanese)” and “Individual Psychology”.  Please leave a comment about how we can make a harmonized community for sustainability at Sustainability Harmonist Forum if you feel you belong to the community.

In the Sustainability Education page, my learning journey about sustainability during my grad program is reported.  Posts are from my sustainability education related experience and articles that I found.

♦ This blog contains Japanese resources.  Please leave a comment at the post that you are interested in if you would like to know more detail. I will explain/translate the post in English.

♦ I appreciate sharing your knowledge and thoughts in this blog with constructive manner.

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My interest in the education for sustainability is how education effectively changes society, especially, adults, be more sustainable/eco-friendly.  I think collaborative sustainability education – flexibly mixing different disciplines depending on the stakeholders – is effective. Every human is different and unique: even the same person changes her/his believe system and her/his priority for her/his decision depending on his/her different stage/condition of life.  Therefore, there is not only one correct sustainability education.

Everyone is a teacher and learner.  I am definitely a life-long student and learning something from someone and something in the variety of situations everyday.  We learn something in informal educational environment: I notice that most of things that I have learnt are not from academic setting educational environment.  So, the small thing that you think might be a big discovery for me.

Everything and everyone is a part of nature/universe and connects each other.  Everything affects each other directly or indirectly, good or bad, small or big, you Iike the idea or not.  Our existence is part of lifecycle.

My focus area is not only Vancouver, but also any urban areas where my heart is called.

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