Creative Learning Lab

* This laboratory has been completed.

Date of establishmentJuly 4, 2019
Director
Takashi Iba
Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
Representative of the Lab, theory construction on Creative Learning and practical research on support through pattern language
Contact
Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus o408

■Objective

In this modern society with its increasing complexity and fluidity, we need to come up with new ways of education toward the future, and active discussions are being held on this topic both in and outside of Japan. Against this background, this Lab offers Creative Learning as one of the effective means of such education, and will deepen research on its theory, while also developing supportive media and striving to achieve its practical implementation into the actual educational sites.

 

Creative Learning is one style of education that offers a creative way of learning, where students learn from the process of creation. In order to develop the ability to give birth to something, which will become an essential skill in our future “creative society,” we believe in the importance of learning through the creative activities involved in the process of making something. Based on this concept, we will conduct practical research toward the actual realization of this style of education.

 

As part of preparatory efforts leading up to this moment, our studies have been summarized and published under the title of Creative Learning: Learning and Education in the Creative Society (Author & Editor: Takashi Iba; Co-authors: Kan Suzuki, Naoki Iwase, Mutsumi Imai, Chikara Ichikawa; Keio University Press; Published February 2019).

 

The key feature of this Lab is that it focuses not on the future of education in general, but specializes on Creative Learning. As such, we seek to study the potential of Creative Learning, while also working in partnership with schools, companies, NPOs, and other organizations by giving particular focus on practical research into the practical implementation of educational activities that utilize pattern language, with the aim of having Creative Learning be implemented and widely disseminated within our society.

 

 

■Outline of research activity plan

<Phase 1>

We will strive to disseminate the concept of Creative Learning, and give support toward its practical implementation at schools and other organizations by using pattern language. Researchers and students will go to the actual site of the schools to facilitate and collect case examples in order to support the utilization and implementation of the following programs: Learning Patterns that support creative learning, Collaboration Patterns that support creative collaborations, Presentation Patterns that support creative presentations, Life with Reading—Secret of Reading that supports creative reading, Discover PL Card that supports creative research, Words for a Dialogue that supports dialogues for resolving problems, Mira Pata (Place for Creating the Future Me) that supports thinking about future life paths, Project Design Pattern that supports creative planning, and the Active Learning Patterns (for teachers) and Words for Developing Preschools: Mindset of Middle Leaders who Connect Preschools and more that are geared toward teachers.

 

<Phase 2>

Based on the utilization and implementation of the above, we will reinforce our theories, create frameworks, and consider strategies that are needed to achieve the further dissemination of Creative Learning. Also, instead of simply using existing pattern language, we will provide support to enable children to develop pattern language for areas in which they themselves are interested, and will also develop educational materials to enable that. By this, we will provide learning opportunities through the process of creating pattern language. We will also host a conference for kids to give such children a place to present what they created (currently in discussion with the board of The Hillside Group, an international academic institute on Pattern Language in which Iba serves as a board member). We will also develop and nurture a practical implementation community for Creative Learning. By this, we will create opportunities that enable us to mutually refer to one another and acquire learning, and also increase the number of people who are implementing this style of learning, so that the efforts will not end as being a one-time-only implementation/example, but will be practiced on a continuous basis.

 

<Phase 3>

We will begin implementing and disseminating information on Creative Learning, in English, toward international schools and to those outside of Japan. We will also translate pattern language into languages other than Japanese or English, and implement it into other countries. Even now, Learning Patterns have been translated into German, and are being used in the classes at universities for teacher training in Austria. We will increase these kinds of examples. By this, we aim to have reform and discussions be held on Creative Learning not only within Japan, but all throughout the world. We will conduct a symposium to introduce the results gained up until then and to inform participants of the knowledge acquired, and will also seek to summarize our findings and have it published in a book.

Researchers, managers and professors

Takashi IbaDirector Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
Representative of the Lab, theory construction on Creative Learning and practical research on support through pattern language
Kan Hiroshi SUZUKI Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
Research on the future ways of education from the perspective of educational policies both in and outside of Japan
Mutsumi Imai Professor,Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Research on learning and education based on cognitive science
Jun Murai Professor,Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Research on the ways of education from the perspective of global social infrastructure and technological trends
Hiroya Tanaka Professor,Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Practical research on creation and learning from the perspective of fabrication and manufacturing
Hiroto Kobayashi Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance
Practical research on initiatives of SBC (SFC Student Build Campus), etc.
Hajime Ishikawa Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance
Practical research on developing new methods of expression and on learnings that use those methods
Shoko Miyagawa Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care
Practical research on nursing and healthcare in an era of fabrication and manufacturing
Satoko Hotta Professor, Graduate School of Health Management
Practical research on town development through co-creation from the perspective of regional comprehensive care
Kenji Kumasaka Professor Emeritus
Practical research on social implementation and dissemination based on an analysis of modern society
Masatada Kobayashi Guest Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
Practical research on nurturing & supporting creative human resources and on developing frameworks
Kouichirou Eto Guest Professor, Graduate School of Health Management
Practical research on creation and learning from the perspective of collective intelligence and the user participation-type research
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