Lynsey Helen Mori    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Assistant Professor-lecturer
Date	2023/08/20
Presentation Theme	Houses are Not Just for Harry Potter: Developing a Positive Learning Environment
Conference	AsiaTEFL International Conference 2023 The 21st AsiaTEFL International Conference
Promoters	Asia TEFL
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, S. Korea
Holding period	2023/08/17～2023/08/20
Publisher and common publisher	Lynsey Mori
Details	Schools and educational programs in Asia, as elsewhere, face many challenges in the 21st century. While the system remains resistant to change, it is obvious that during this era of social, political, and technological upheaval the desired direction of the change addresses curricula and methodologies towards ever-greater social and emotional engagement, autonomy, empowerment, and egalitarianism. The monolithic grammar of schooling permits only superficial and often short-term reforms. For meaningful progress toward the dreams of practitioners and researchers alike, the organizational system of the school itself must be confronted. A bold and innovative program at a private high school in Japan has shown promising results. Called the House Program, it is no short-term intervention but a weekly class and a formal part of the English curriculum. In the program, which is loosely based on the social-athletic houses found in Anglophone countries, students from all three high school grades are mixed and do bilingual collaborative tasks that are planned and implemented by the students themselves. This paper will demonstrate how such a hybrid social-academisocial-academica new path forward for student agency, social and emotional learning, and true curricular reform.
URL for researchmap	http://www.asiatefl2023.org/