In 2019, the Global Education Center at Tokyo Kasei University held the first of its annual open lecture series. The mission of the Center is to help our students develop into global citizens, and the open lecture series aims to further this goal by exploring the connections between education and prominent global issues. In an increasingly globalized world, it is important to consider how our educational practices shape, and in turn are shaped by, issues of identity, environment, privilege, and marginalization. Each year, our open lecture series seeks to further discussion of these issues by inviting expert speakers to give insightful talks on topics of global significance, and how they relate to education. We hope that these talks will provide new perspectives and help our attendees to consider these issues in a new light.

グローバル教育センターは2019年から特別セミナー*を実施しています。この特別セミナーは、教育と国際問題の関連性を探りながら、センターの役割でもある「学生が地球市民として成長する手助けをする」ことを目的にしています。グローバル化が加速する世界の中で、教育的実践がどのようにアイデンティティー、環境、人権、疎外といった問題に影響を及ぼしているか、反対にそれらの問題がどのように教育的実践に影響を及ぼしているかを考えることはとても重要なことです。この特別セミナーでは、これらの問題をより深く検討するために、毎年のテーマに沿って専門家をお招きし、講演をしていただいています。この講演が参加者の皆さんに新たな視点を与え、国際問題について新しい観点から考える手助けとなることを願っています。

*現在は休止しております

Year 2021: Issues of race and racism in English language teaching

Date of the event	Lecture Title	Lecturer
Jun-2021	"Breaking the Cycle of Inequity towards NNEST in Japan" 🎥	Jackson Koon Yat Lee
Oct-2021	"The Racism of Accent Reduction" 🎥	Vijay Ramjattan
Feb-2022	"Pedagogy & Presence: Black Female ELT teachers in Japan"	Avril Haye-Matsui

Year 2020：International and intercultural communication

Date of the event	Lecture Title	Guest Lecturer
Jan-2021	"Putting aside essencialist grand narrative to find deCentred intercultural threads" 🎥	Adrian Holliday
Feb-2021	"How to Teach English as a Lingua Franca (and Tackle Native Speakerism)" 🎥	Marek Kiczkowiak

Year 2019：English as a Lingua Franca (EFL)

Date of the event	Lecture Title	Guest Lecture
Jun-2019	"English as a Lingua Franca" and Culture: What English should we consider using to work with people from different cultures?" Face-to-face event, No recorded video	Miyuki Takino
Oct-2019	"EFL, Global Citizenship, and Teacher Development" Face-to-face event, No recorded video	Ayako Suzuki
Nov-2020 (postponed from Feb-2020)	"Transforming Japanese University students' attitudes towards English: The imoact of ELF-informed academic content courses" 🎥	Mayu Konakahara