A School-Wide Effort to Share Activities of the Mother Tongue Class : A Practical Report on Thập Cẩm DAY, Open Day in Mother Tongue Class

コウリツ　ガッコウ　ニ　オケル　ボゴ　キョウシツ　カツドウ　ヲ　ガッコウ　ニ　ヒラク　トリクミ　ボゴ　キョウシツ　コウカイ　イベント　タプカム　DAY　ノ　ジッセン　ホウコク

コウドウ, ミカ

Kondo, Mika

Mother Tongue, Heritage Language, and Bilingual Education Research Association

母語教室

公立学校

多文化共生

国際理解教育

Teaching Notes

The paper reports on “Thập Cẩm DAY,” an open day at a mother tongue class H for children with Vietnamese roots at S elementary school in Kobe in school year 2019-2020. On “Thập Cẩm DAY,” H class students worked as “hosts” and welcomed Japanese children who came to the event as “guests.” This change in the structure made it possible for the H class students to get approval from others while keeping them at the“ center” of the field. H class students were also able to reinterpret“ cultural differences” as a “means” they can use through their own initiative rather than as an“ objectified nature” that is forced upon them by others. In mother tongue class, it is important not to consider children to be members of a homogeneous group as “children with roots in XX,” but to respect the diversity among them. Sharing such an attitude throughout the school will enable all students have the opportunity to learn about the reality of diversity.