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Session code: 6-3-A203

Title: Who are the learning facilitators? & Where should they be educated?

Contributer/s: SHINICHI SUZUKI

Abstract : UNESCO and other international organizations often refer to the new notion of "learning facilitators". There is a background philosophy of "four pillars of learning:(1)learning to know, (2)learning to do,(3)learning to live together, and (4)learning to be".

Against globalizing cultural contexts which are often complex and contradictory, it is uregent to supplement the fifth pillar,(5) learning to demonstrate critically. In this sense, s/he should be a newly defined intellect, if s/he can be a new learning facilitator to all types of new learners.

Accepting such new definition as this, where such new intellects should and could be educated and trained? Universities? The present author would propose to establish a new scheme of learning facilitator education, called "Place of Memories":an intellectual symbiotic conglomerate composed regonally and globally. New knowledge base for learning facilitaors should be developed there.

New qualifications for them could be institutionally formalized through such schemes. Certainly there will come some reoraganiztions of higher education instituions and schools.