(Forum of Do Gakumon XVII)

 Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 13:00-16:00
 Place: Kumamoto Gakuen University, Takahashi Morio Hall

Organized by Do Gakumon Planning Committee

Sustainable development is widely recognized as a key concept in global environmental conservation. Through environmental education young people discuss their hopes for the future and study practical solutions to environmental problems. At the forum in Kumamoto, we propose increased international cooperation as we examine the past and future of environmental education.

1) Opening (13:00)

2) Address by the host (13:00) Prof. Tadashi Sakamoto President, Kumamoto Gakuen University

3) Speech from the guest (13:10) Kumamoto Prefecture (tentative)

4) Symposium (13:20 – 16:00) :

 Road of Learning Leads to the World

Coordinator: Prof. Tadashi Sakamoto (President, Kumamoto Gakuen University)

Report 1: Mr. Takashi Hisama (Reporter, Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun)

	“The Field of the Environmental Education and the Role of the Media”

Report 2: Dr. Zhu Guowei (Deputy Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Normal University)

	“Environmental Education in China” (tentative title)

Symposium participants:

Prof. Takashi Miyakita (Professor, Faculty of Social Welfare, Kumamoto Gakuen University)

Ms. Nako Hamamoto (Senior Director, Environmental Education Incorporated Nonprofit Organization “Kusunoki shizenkan”)

Commentator: Prof. Hubert Weiger (Director, BUND, Friends of the Earth Germany) “Environmental Education in Germany” (tentative title)

5) Closing (16:00)

Organized by Kumamoto Gakuen University and Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun

Co-hosted by Nanjing Normal University, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Nishinippon Shimbun

Supported by Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan, Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Fukuoka, German Consulate General Osaka-Kobe, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture Citizen’s Movement to Stop Global Warming, Kumamoto City, Japanisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft Kumamoto, Japan-China Society of Kumamoto, Suntory Holdings Limited, Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation