Background

The core goal of the educational philosophy of Sapporo Sacred Heart School is to create well rounded students by placing equal importance on both intellectual pursuits and peace education, including volunteer activities and awareness of global issues. The vision for peace education includes four elements: peace with God, peace with others, peace with nature, and peace with ourselves.

Objective

To develop students as future agents for a social transformation according to the spirit of JPIC, in particular by expressing solidarity with the people in need and global concerns.

Activities

 Solidarity Activities:

  • Lunch box: To be in solidarity with people who do not have enough to eat, students refrain their lunch to a plain menu: rice balls only.
  • Helping Hands Committee

Global concerns activities

  • Class temperature: To consider climate change and its consequences, classes avoid overheating rooms in winter and not to lower the room temperature more than 28 degree in summer
  • The school belongs to the worldwide UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network, where schools are encouraged to educate students on issues related to UNESCO's overarching goal of promoting peace and international understanding (intercultural learning, peace and human rights, education for sustainable development, and the United Nations priorities).
  • JPIC awareness programmes in integrated classes, religion classes and social studies.
  • Interchange program with Asian countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Taiwan)
  • SOFIS: The SOFIS programme consists of representatives of the five Sacred Heart High School in Japan. It stands for the beginning letters of each of the 5 schools (Sapporo, Obayashi, Fuji, International School, Sankocho Tokyo). The goals of SOFIS are to deepen the bond among the Sacred Heart Schools in Japan, and to promote the social awareness which leads them to take concrete action. Some of the issues tackled: refugee (2009), biodiversity (2010), multicultural society (2011), understanding of other religions and tolerance (2012), solidarity with the victims of the disaster area (2013), disaster prevention (2014), indigenous people (2015), UN Sustainable Developement Goals, SDGs (2019) ?
  • Reconciliation Korea-Japan: Special programme for reconciliation between Japanese and Korean cooperated with Sacred Heart School in Korea.
  • Ecological education based on Climate Change
  • Care and respect for the elderly in an aging society
  • Understanding  the handicapped people,  former patients of  Hansen’s disease
  • Energy problems including nuclear weapons 

 

People being served

People being served : Agents of transformation (Educators)

Age group : Children 0-17, Young people 18-25

Number of participants : 251-500

Schedule

Project status : Ongoing

Collaborations

  • Collaboration type : In kind/voluntary

    Collaboration with : Schools of the Society

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Overview

Society presence : Japan

Focus of the project : People

JPIC Imperative : Transforming and Being Transformed

UN Sustainable Development Goals : 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, 17 Partnerships for the Goals