Symposium hosted by the Center for Teaching Curriculum and supported by the Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies was held.

On the afternoon of Saturday, March 12, 2022, the Center for Teaching Curriculum and Instruction held its 2021 Symposium at Room 403 of the Gate Building on the Ichigaya Campus (simultaneous streaming via ZOOM). The symposium served as the final lecture of Ryoichi Takano, Professor of Career Design and Director of the Teaching Curriculum Center.

The theme of the symposium was "Designing School Organization and Learning Environments: Focusing on Democracy, Citizenship, and Essential Questions. The subtitle of the symposium, "Democracy and Citizenship," became an actual topic due to the unexpected invasion of Ukraine by Russia at the end of February, and the symposium became a "forum" for discussing these issues.

　Here is a summary of the symposium's proceedings and content in line with the speakers. First, Mr. Takano gave a "final lecture" that intersected his own research career with the theme of the symposium. While reviewing almost 50 years of research on school organization design, he also referred to school environment design, which is related to the subtitle of the symposium. For more details, please refer to the article, "A Study Career of a Peripheral: In Lieu of a Final Lecture," in the "Bulletin of the Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies, Hosei University," No. 19 (March 2022).

　Three people then gave reports. First, Professor Minoru Sawada of Sophia University gave a report titled "Contemporary Significance of Democractic Schools: Toward the Concept of Socially Just Education. Using Mission Hill School, a "public democratic school" as a case study, he introduced the practice of inclusive and competency-based curriculum design based on democracy and social justice.

　The second presenter, Professor Shun Sakamoto of the Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies, who is also in charge of the University's librarianship program, presented a case study of "Digital Education" from the perspective of media pedagogy. His report was titled "Literacy and Citizenship in the Digital Age" from the perspective of media pedagogy. Referring to the war of aggression against Ukraine, he proposed a way of "critical media literacy," including trends in digital citizenship education in Japan and "upstander education" in the United States.

The last report was "Essential Questions and Citizenship in Science Education" by Akihiko Tsujimoto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Bioscience and Applied Chemistry. While introducing his own educational practices such as "Musashino City Remodeling Plan: Proposal to the Mayor," he discussed the "essential question" of "what is citizenship" and the "fusion of literature and science" related to "what does it mean to learn science? Science Citizenship" were introduced.

Following the first part, a panel discussion was held in the second part. The opening remarks were made by Shigeo Kodama, Professor of the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, in his main commentary entitled "From the Commons to the New Public: Toward an Anarchistic Turn in Pedagogy. While touching on Takano's research career, he commented from the standpoint of educational politics on the paradoxes surrounding the citizenship (sex) of the creators of non-state public education and the possibility of "being in between" and commons common sense formation.

Following these comments were made by Koichiro Komikawa, Professor, Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies, Maki Hiratsuka, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Tomoaki Matsuo, Professor, Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies all of whom are also in charge of teaching courses at the University. These comments were brief, lasting only about five minutes, but they raised basic questions and issues related to the marketability of education, school corporations, and citizenship education. These were the scheduled comments, but with so little time remaining, we were only able to interact with the audience through their comments, which was truly disappointing.

Finally, we would like to thank Prof. M. Koakimoto, Executive Trustee Hosei University's Education Support Division, for his opening remarks at the beginning of the symposium, and Yoshio Hirayama, Executive Trustee Hosei University's Student Support Division, and Yuko Arakawa, Faculty of Lifelong Learning and Career Studies for closing the symposium, as well as the 150 or so participants (about half in the hall and half on ZOOM) who came despite the busy end of the academic year. We would like to mention that about 150 people attended the symposium (about half in the hall and half in the ZOOM viewing room) despite the busy schedule at the end of the school year. The details of the symposium will be published in the "Hosei University Teaching Curriculum Annual Report" and other publications in the future.
（Ryoichi Takano)