Author(s): KONDO, K., MORIOKA, Y.1, OGATA, M.2, Institution: NIHON UNIVERSITY, Country: JAPAN, Abstract-ID: 1456

The Right of Persons with Disabilities adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2006 can be regarded as the foundation for taking concrete actions to move towards an inclusive society. The development of the Olympic and Paralympic education programme accelerated by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games (hereafter Tokyo2020 Games) is an example of the approach toward the realization of an inclusive society in our country, through sports.
This study aims to consider the issues of the enrichment of education methods and the education curriculum by examining the possibility of introducing “guide running”as a learning tool of “health and physical education classes” and “special activities” with middle school teachers in order to achieve more substantial “cooperation with a diverse range of people”, as stipulated in junior high school curriculum guidelines.
To this end, the project was launched in Y municipal junior high School in H city situated in western Tokyo. This project was implemented from April to December in 2023. In getting the project under way, the following phases were set prior to the start of the project : start-up period (from end of April to end of May) – planning period (from beginning of June to middle of July) – practice period for teachers (from end of October to middle of December) – practice period for students (from beginning of September to end of October) – evaluation period (from end of October to middle of December). The findings are to be analysed by means of Action research (Akita,K et al., 2005；Sato,K et al., 2004).
In start-up period, based on the educational policy of Y Junior High School as subject of this project and the H city education board, the objective was set to develop the classes to realise an inclusive and also diverse society through sports. In practice period for teachers, the objective was to encourage the discussion about the standpoints of evaluation and the expected issues in actual operation when the teachers giving classes is actually doing “guide running” to be introduced as learning tool.
To do this, a summer workshop for teachers of health and physical education of H city in cooperation with H city education board was held. The participants were 13 teachers from H city junior high school. In this workshop, firstly the basic points of “guide running” were lectured in a didactic manner to the participants, then practical session and wrap-up discussion were followed. During the discussion, positive comments such as “it is necessary to remain in constant communication, which is good” were made. Also, there was a comment which should be reviewed such as “careful consideration will be required to pair up as men and women are learning together”.
In light of two previous periods, in the next practice period for students, the teachers of health and physical education in Y Junior High School gave a unit of Athletics for sprint including theory of physical education consisting of 9 classes.