CEDAR Hiroshima
CEDAR Hiroshima
ReCDI (the Research Center for Diversity and Inclusion) collaborate with an educational network, CEDAR (Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion) and organize workshops, study meetings, seminars and university courses.
2024/6/15-16 Class "Learning Hiroshima: Intercultural Fieldwork"
ReCDI helped I-PIE (Institute for Promotion for Interculturalism in Education) to conduct a liberal arts class using the CEDAR method Eleven students spent one night at a training facility for foreign trainees/workers,
and shared experiences with 36 trainees from India, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar while cooking, cleaning, jogging, playing, learning, and sleeping together.
■ Comments from HU students
“Sharing experiences with the trainees, I heard many personal stories and get to know them better.”“During the course, we had a few opportunities for confidential, small-group discussion in the CEDAR style, which provided a safe space for every member to express their opinions. I was able to better organize my opinions in my mind.”
■ Comments from immigrant trainees
“Before the HU students arrived, I had many concerns, such as whether I could communicate with them and what kind of students they would be. It was the first time for me to share a bed room with foreigners, and I really enjoyed playing games and communicating with the HU students.”“I was in charge of cooking breakfast on that day. We all ate Myanmar fried rice together, and I was very happy to see their happy faces.”
Caregiving Classes
Workshops
Living experience(cooking)
Living experience (staying in the same room)
This class was an opportunity to put into practice the CEDAR philosophy of “developing the skills to live with people who are different, as they are different, through intellectual, experiential, and emotional learning.
2024/1/6-8 Workshop "Seeing Them in Us, Seeing Us in Them - Workshop for Living with Immigrant Workers in Our Community, Higashi-Hiroshima"
ReCDI hosted a workshop on living with different others in Shiwa Town, Higashi-Hiroshima City to teach problem-solving skills, connect interested people, and encourage social activities, through the CEDAR method. Shiwa Town is a suburb with a rural landscape, but the number of immigrant workers or trainees is gradually increasing. After an incident in 2020 in which a trainee from Vietnam killed her new-born baby, the town has been exploring various exchange activities. In our workshop, the participants had discussions with local stakeholders such as a social worker, community council officers, community welfare volunteers, and local residents. They also had the opportunity to experience the type of training trainees go through at the supervising organization, as well as an exchange meeting between the trainees and local residents. Based on these experiences, participants learned about the difficulties and possibilities of trusting others. The workshop was featured on a local TV program and generated a lot of interest.
Discussion with local stakeholders
Exchange meeting with trainees
CEDAR Activities on Trust and Confidence
2023/8/8 Seminar Seminar on Peace Education in a Multicultural Society
We at ReCDI and I-PIE, Hiroshima University, hosted a public seminar on 'Rethinking Peace Education - on Difference, Categories and Group Belonging' on Tuesday 8 August from 14:30-16:30.
The speaker, Professor Adam B. Seligman (Boston University, Sociology of Religion), has been writing extensively on living with different others.
While the key to living with others is often considered as based on commonality - 'we are all the same' - Prof. Seligman sees it as based on difference - 'we, defined by our communities of belonging, are different to each other'.
Prof. Seligman shared his insights from a peace education class he attended in Hiroshima. What is important for people with different values and backgrounds to build a civil society together?
What can peace education be in a divided society?
Please refer to the flyer for the details.
Date and Time: 8th Aug 2023 (Tuesday) 14:30-16:30
Venue: L205 at School of Education, Hiroshima University (or Live on Zoom)
Speaker: Prof. Adam Seligman, Boston University
Theme: Rethinking Peace Education - on Difference, Categories and Group Belonging
Fee: Free of Charge
Language: English and Japanese (consecutive interpreting)
Registration: No prior registration required for in-person participation
2022/6/14 Field Trip The 4th Field Trip "Supervising Organizaiton for Technical Intern Trainees"
On June 14, 2022, we visited the Higashihiroshima Training Facility of TECS or Technical Expert Training Cooperative Society. The current national regulation requires technical intern trainees to undergo one month of training after their arrival in Japan. While most supervising organizations subcontract this training, TECS conducts the residential training in their own facility.
2021/3/8 Seminar Diversity Seminar "Living with Different Cultures” Prof. Adam Seligman (President of CEDAR) Web Lecture
Diversity Seminar, Living with Different Cultures
Mar. 8, 2021@Zoom
Webinar with Professor Adam Seligman
Organized by ReCDI /
Research Group for Developing Science for Diversity and Inclusion
Co-organized by Institute for Promotion for Interculturalism in Education
Supported by LIDIC Hiroshima
With a new immigration system taking effect in April 2019, we expect more and more people from abroad among our neighbors. How do we build a civil society with people of different cultures and values?
CEDAR is a non-profit US organization conducting educational workshops for multicultural society. In this webinar, the CEDAR director Professor Seligman (Boston University) discussed the theory and practice of CEDAR.
Watch the webinar video
Read the answers to the qeustions left unanswered during the webinar.
leaflet
2020/11/1,2 Workshop Preparation Camp
We, six CEDAR Hiroshima staff members, held a CEDAR-styled preparatory camp on November 1 and 2, 2020.
The objectives were to (1) understand CEDAR experientially and intellectually, (2) build partnerships with collaborators, and (3) draw a blueprint for CEDAR Hiroshima.
By traveling to multiple locations in one car and spending long hours together for two days, we experienced the stresses and discomfort unique to CEDAR .
2020/8/30 Study Meeting The 5th Study Meeting "How Universities and Communities Engage with Each Other: A Report from Motomachi”
August 30, 2020, 13:00-15:30 @ webHiromi Uemura (Associate Professor, Hiroshima University)
Lecture title: "After-school Learning Support for Pupils in Motomachi Primary School"
Naoe Kawamoto (Associate Professor, Hiroshima University)
Lecture title: "Health Support for the Elderly in Motomachi"
2020/7/18 Study Meeting The 4th Study Group "How Universities and Communities Engage with Each Other: : TV Drama, Motomachi Apartments”
July 18, 2020, 9:30-12:00 @ web
Conducted as a joint study meeting with the 7th LIDIC Hiroshima (Living with Different Cultures in Hiroshima).
Machiko Oike（Director of ReCDI）
Lecture title: My Position on the "Motomachi Problem": Knowing Others, Living with Others
Taira Nakamura（Professor, Hiroshima University）
Lecture title: Multicultural and Multiethnic Society in Hiroshima: Analysis of the Documentary Drama Motomachi Apartments
Kwon Hyon Gi
Lecture title: Perspectives from Zainichi Koreans Living in Motomachi: "Community Revitalization" and "Multicultural Society" in Motomachi
2020/3/30 Study Meeting The 3rd Study Meeting "Reading ’The Tragedy of Human Rights’ by Prof. Seligman”
March 30, 2020 @ Lecture Room 405, Higashi Senda Campus, Hiroshima University
We read "The Tragedy of Human Rights: The Liberalism and the Loss of Belonging" by Prof. Seligman and Prof. Montgomery and discussed human rights, belonging, community, civil society, inclusion, and difference.
Organized by ReCDI and Research Group for Developing Science for Diversity and Inclusion
2020/3/11 Study Meeting The 2nd Study Meeting "Ethnicity, Culture and Education: Japanese Society from the Perspective of Korean Schools”
March 11, 2020 @ Lecture Room 404, Higashi Senda Campus, Hiroshima University
Kwon Hyon Gi (Executive Director, Action for Free Education for Korean School, Hiroshima)
Lecture title: "Ethnicity, Culture, and Education: The Experience at a Korean School"
NAKAMURA, Taira (Professor, Hiroshima University)
Lecture title: "'Multiculturalism or Tabunka-kyosei' in Hiroshima and Japanese Society: Ethnic, Citizenship, and/or National Education"
Michiko Fukuda (President, CEDAR Nagasaki; Board Member, Masaharu Oka Memorial Nagasaki Peace Museum)
Remarkomments
Organized by ReCDI and Research Group for Developing Science for Diversity and Inclusion
2020/3/10 Study Meeting The 1st Study Meeting "University Town and Multicultural Society: Reality of Japanese Language Education in Higashihiroshima
March 10, 2020 @ Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima Campus, Gakushi Kaikan
Riho Sakurai (Associate Professor, Hiroshima University)
Lecture title: "Multicultural understanding in Japanese primary and junior secondary schools”
Reiko Okumura (Vice President, Kodomo no Hiroba Yaccharu)
Lecture title: "Multiculturalism in Japanese Language Classes in Higashi-hiroshima”
Organized by ReCDI and Research Group for Developing Science for Diversity and Inclusion
2020/3/6 Field Trip The 3rd Field Trip "Initiatives of Kure City”
On March 6, 2020, we visited Kure City Hall. We met with Takamasa Idehata, a Kure City Council member, Toru Une, a city official in charge of international relations , Akiko Katayama of the International Exchange Center, and Shinji Takahashi of the City Board of Education, who explained about international exchange and support for foreigners in Kure City.
2020/2/9 Field Trip The 2nd Field Trip "The Church in Kure”
On February 9, 2020, we visited Catholic Kure Church. At Kure Church, multilingual Masses in Japanese, English, and Vietnamese are held on the second Sunday of each month, and English Masses on the third Sunday. After the multilingual Mass, a meeting is held at a facility next to the cathedral for socializing. On the day we visited, Filipino believers prepared Filipino snacks for everyone to enjoy.
(Photo) Multilingual flyers for support of foreigners are lined up in front of the prayer book.
2020/2/8 Field Trip The 1st Fiedl Trip "Hiroshima Korean School”
On February 8, 2020, we visited the Korean School in Hiroshima City. This was a part of the tour organized by the "Action for Free Education for Korean School, Hiroshima.” After a lecture bythe executive director of the Action, we observed the nursery school, kindergarten, and classes at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. After the tour, we discussed with the principal on the ethnic culture and language.
(Photo) Students are learning the Korean language, Japanese, and English.