Process of SIGLOC (Socially Innovative Global Classroom)
SOCIAL INNOVATION
SOCIAL INNOVATIONSIGLOC (Socially Innovative Global Classroom)
This is a unique intensive collaborative program with overseas students, which is the final step in learning how to find practical solutions to global and local social issues.
PROCESS
Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) students and overseas university students are unified in work groups of approximately four people. Field research sites include government, NPOs, and local volunteer organizations. Students learn, research, and consider social issues related to the field research sites, and give final presentations at the field research sites. Some of the solutions proposed in this program have been implemented as social experiments after the program.
1. Basic Research
- Students will gain basic knowledge about a theme (social system, history, and background); and
- Discuss the topics with overseas students and make international comparisons.
2. Field Research 1
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Students will access the field research sites and turn their knowledge into experience/ practice; and
- Observe their field research sites and explore issues that they identify with overseas students
3. Data Analysis
- Students will share what they have found at their sites with overseas students, exchange opinions and discover issues; and
- Propose hypotheses for solving problems and consider how to verify those hypotheses.
4. Field Research 2
- Students will examine their hypotheses and formulate new hypotheses as needed; and
- Receive feedback from their field research site.
5. Summaries & Reports
- Students will create Social Innovation (SI) reports;
- Have a group discussion on what they have learned, experienced and examined and provide summaries; and
- Compare various viewpoints (domestic/overseas) and create a report that helps readers to gain common understanding.
