Japan Association for Study of Cooperation in Education (JASCE) is an organization for promoting the research and practice of cooperative and collaborative learning and related activities, as well as for enhancing educators’ awareness of valuing cooperation and for expanding vital networks among teachers, administrators, educational policy-makers and researchers. We believe enriching students’ learning experiences through implementing cooperative and collaborative learning is to build our foundation of democratic and pro-existence society.

There have been many individuals and groups to promote various types of educational theories and practices based on “cooperation” in schools in Japan. However, there have been few opportunities to interact to each others for sharing their ideas and practices. JASCE is to provide a forum for those people and organizations to interact each others to deepen their understanding of cooperation in education and to raise a wave of educational reform towards building our democratic and pro-existence society.

To achieve our goal we have local workshops and national conferences, publish books and newsletters. We also open a channel for Japanese educators to communicate to foreign educators by working together with IASCE (International Association for Study of Cooperation in Education).