The purpose of JAGE
JAGE (Japan Association for Global Education) is a nonprofit organization which was newly set up in November 2008 on a basis of the activities of JASIE (Japan Association for International Education), our parent organization.
Before the foundation of JAFIE in 1970, there used to be several small associations for overseas education in each prefecture. With the growing demand of the research extension to all over Japan in the world progress afterwards, JAFIE was set up in order to unify its prefectural activities and has been playing a significant part as the center of the development, international (global) education.
Since its foundation, with the huge network of more than 2,500 schools throughout Japan, JAFIE has been very actively engaging in such activities as promotion of global education and international exchanges between schools and students, teacher dispatch programs to developing countries and so on.
JAGE, as a NPO, inheriting JASIE’s activities, will intend to professionalize them and to promote global education and more contribution to the international understandings and cooperation.
特定非営利活動法人、全国国際教育協会、略称「国際協」、「JAGE（ジャッジ）」は、学校現場における研究グループ、全国国際教育研究協議会、略称 、「国際研」と関係の深いNPOです。
国際研（当時は高国協）は1958年、当時の移住事業団（現国際協力機構：JICA）の移住事業勧奨から技術協力支援へと半世紀の開発教育の歴史を持ち、唯一学校現場の中で教師の教育研究活動として開発教育、グローバル教育を実践し続け現在、全国2500校を超える加盟校ネットワークを組織する研究会です。