Location	2-5, Sawaragi-cho, Takatsuki-shi, Osaka, Japan
TEL.	(+81)72-671-0001
Website	https://www.takatsuki.ed.jp/schoolprofile
Membership	2025

2025 Annual Report

The initiative of this academic year, “Multi-Resource Co-Learning: Intercultural Co-Learning Centered on the Utilization of Diverse Resources,” integrates a school-based subject, ESD, with the Period for Integrated Studies (Project Research) to make comprehensive and inclusive use of material, human, and local resources in education. Guided by the cyclical learning framework of “Learn, Connect, and Transform,” the program aims to foster students’ capacity to identify issues independently, analyze them critically, and take informed action.

In the utilization of material resources, students explored unused and underutilized materials—such as cacao husks, fruit pomace, food waste, and seaweed—as entry points for investigating circular economies and environmental conservation. Learning outcomes were shared with the wider public through presentations at the Expo, encouraging social awareness and dialogue. In terms of human resources, the program created co-learning spaces through online exchanges with schools in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as collaborative learning with international students, nurturing intercultural understanding and a global perspective. Regarding local resources, the Osaka–Kansai Expo was positioned as an educational platform, enabling practices focused on international exchange, peace and human rights, and marine conservation through collaboration among public institutions, private organizations, and academic partners.

Through a year-long ESD curriculum, students gradually developed collaboration skills, intrinsic motivation, and self-transformation. As a result, noticeable changes were observed in their perceptions of resources, collaborative attitudes, and willingness to engage with society. At the same time, challenges remain, including the clarification of assessment indicators and the establishment of sustainable frameworks for ongoing exchange. Moving forward, the initiative aims to evolve into an integrated ESD program through deeper co-creation with universities, companies, and local governments.

Annual Work Plan

Based on the principles of the UNESCO Associated Schools Network, our school promotes experiential learning centered on sustainable development, peace and human rights, and international understanding. In the coming academic year, we will enhance the content of the school-based subject ESD by introducing card-based educational materials developed by the Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU), fostering dialogic and collaborative learning that enables students to examine complex social issues from multiple perspectives. In addition, focusing on circular economy and carbon neutrality, students will engage in mutual learning with overseas UNESCO schools and international students studying in Japan, deepening their understanding of sustainability from a global viewpoint. Furthermore, students will create artworks expressing the Preamble of the UNESCO Constitution and the Four Pillars of Learning—learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together, and learning to be—thereby visualizing UNESCO’s理念 and sharing it across the school community. Through these initiatives, our school will further strengthen its role as a UNESCO School that connects the local community with the global society and nurtures active contributors to a sustainable future.