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"Protagonists in Tokyo's Education for Sick Children Exhibition"

Update: February 22, 2024

With the cooperation of the National Education Study Group for Sick Children, the "Protagonists in Tokyo's Education for Sick Children Exhibition" was held for a period of one week between February 7 (Wednesday) - February 14 (Wednesday) in the third-floor lounge of our University Hall.

This exhibition was organized as part of the classwork for the Seminar for Teaching Professions, which is a course in the Teacher Certification Program. The exhibition displayed approximately 40 works, including paintings, calligraphy, poems, essays, and handicrafts created by sick children who had been hospitalized and attending the hospital school. At the exhibition, the students listened enthusiastically to explanations regarding the background of each artwork given by former public school teachers who have experience teaching at hospital schools and are currently members of the National Education Study Group for Sick Children and researching education for sick children. Having met good teachers and friends in the hospital school, the sick children have remained positive despite their long periods of illness, and the artworks that contain their future hopes each have their own story to tell. Students commented that "they were able to engage with the children's inner world that is expressed through their art, and through discerning the children's strengths and hopes, they were able to experience a new perspective."

Furthermore, during a class in the Seminar for Teaching Professions, Soichiro Nakano, an ICU alumni and middle school teacher who experienced pediatric cancer during his high school years and had studied in a hospital school, gave a lecture on the learning that takes place in hospital schools and the role of teachers. In addition to the exhibition, the students were able to deepen their understanding of the importance of imagination in education training practice and the diverse learning methods.