<Reports> Issues Concerning Support for Foreign Students in Tsukuba City and Educational Cooperation with Local Communities

本稿は、つくば市においても近年増加傾向にある外国人児童生徒への支援に関する課題を取り上げる。特に、筑波大学の留学生受け入れ政策と近隣地域への影響、また、市民ボランティアと学校現場との連携の観点から課題について述べる。それらの課題を踏まえた上で、大学生のインターンシップ活動を促進し、その活動を大学の正規の教育課程に位置付け、単位認定する試みの一つとして、地域社会と大学との教育連携による実践を報告する。
This paper deals with issues related to support for foreign students in Tsukuba City, whose numbers have been increasing in recent years. In particular, we will discuss issues from the perspective of the influence of the University of Tsukuba's policy of accepting international students from neighboring areas, and from the perspective of cooperation between citizen volunteers and schools. Based on these issues, we will report on the practice of university education through collaboration between the local community and the university. It is an attempt to promote internship activities for university students and position them in the formal curriculum of the university to recognize credits.