The UH Uehiro Academy hosts and participates in international exchanges among educators and researchers, with a dedicated focus to Japan-Hawai‘i connections. p4c Hawai‘i has hosted teachers, professors, and students from Austria to Kazakhstan. While the UH Uehiro Academy always welcomes visitors, we focus on three exchanges each year. Since 2008, the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education in Tokyo has generously hosted p4c Hawai‘i teachers in Japan each summer to conduct workshops, demonstrate p4c lessons, and meet with teachers, university faculty, administrators, and government officials. In turn the UH Uehiro Academy welcomes visiting elementary and junior high school teachers from Japan each August. These visiting teachers demonstrate moral education lessons and learn about p4c Hawai‘i from teachers and UH faculty. Additionally, each spring we welcome interested university faculty and graduate students from Japan to learn about p4c Hawai‘i theory and practices. Each of these exchanges is made possible through the effort and guidance of Dr. Mitsuyo Toyoda and the generous support of the Uehiro Foundation.

Current Visiting Scholars

Dr. Tomoyuki Murase is a Research Scholar at the University of Hawai'i Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education. He has about 15 years of experience with p4c in schools in Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Chiba University in Japan. He is currently trying to clarify the concept of wonder and teacher ability in p4c.