At last we'll get the law for democratic educatio!?/ 日本の多様法についてIDEC2015

I shared with IDEC people about the things happening in Japan. It is the movement making a law for democratic education. Since Japanese government defined education is the activities depend on the national curriculum, various discussions not only democratic education, but also Steiner, Montessori, Freinet, home education, Jena Plan, etc have been not recognized as education officially. The students who study at those places register at local state schools and they go to their officially not authorized schools instead of registered state schools. The government money for them go to registered schools. Sometimes these students and officially not recognized schools have some problems when they need some documents for their kids such as diploma and application for students transportation pass, etc. Then we have movement for many years to change this situation. At last, we are going to have the law by the end of August. Of course it is not decided. But Prime minister visited Tokyo Shure last September and he made the press meeting at Tokyo Shure and said Government need to support democratic education. He also said government need to support democratic education including financial support in the Prime Minister's policy speech at the beginning of the present Diet. Minister of education visited another democratic education. We have 70 MPs at the coalition to support democratic education. I talked about our movement and this situation. Many people from various places including Yaacov, Cecelia, Di, Chloe, Justo, Ana Yiris, Marco, Jeniffer and Taiwanese students, Tae, Reshef, Verena, Thomas and many other people gave me many ideas and opinions. These are good reference for our movement. We needed more time so just after the session we had another one. Thank you for friends there.
  JDEC（日本フリースクール大会）が政策提言し、日本で進めている「多様な学び保障法」について共有するセッションを持ちました。日本ではフリースクールに限らず、学習指導要領と独立した思想で行なわれいている学びの場はシュタイナースクール、フレネスクールなども学びの場とは見做されず、地元の学校に籍多くなどの状況があることなど現状と、多様な学び保障法を実現する会が実現しようとしている法律の趣旨と現状を説明し、意見交換を行ないました。非常に多くの人が関心を持ってり、IDECをはじめたヤコブさんを始めオセアニアのネットワークを作っているセシリアさん、EUDECのクロイさん、次回大会の主催をするマルコさん、今大会の主催者の中心のヴェレーナさん、中南米のネットワークをしているフストさんたち各地で活躍されている方たちや、近くの韓国、台湾はスタッフだけでなく子どもたちも参加してくれいろんな意見を出してくれました。時間が収まらず、参加者の方からの提案で直後に近くの場所で引き続きのセッションを行ないました。参加して下さった皆さん、ありがとうございました。