This article summaries a model of curriculum design and development in Indengious education. It argues that comparative education approaches are a necessary step for shaping a curriculum that engages with indigenous education and post-conflict affiliated contexts. This article focuses on the case studies of the Ainu and Māori peoples, indigenous to Hokkaidō, Japan and New Zealand respectively. The methodology attempts to demonstrate a model through the collaborative efforts of the author, employed at a United World College school following the International Baccalaureate program, and Matt Cotter, who teaches Ainu and Māori studies at Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. The purpose of this article is to showcase a curriculum map produced by our collaboration and respective professional experience, as well as engaging with theoretical frameworks such as Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) and Kuan-Hsing Chen’s Asia as Method (2010). This form of data collection highlights the comparative approach as a transformative worldview study as stipulated by John W., and David J. Creswell (2018); emphasizing research validity procedures such as researcher reflexivity, prolonged engagement in the field, and collaboration to critically analyze hidden assumptions about how the historical context, forces, and factors are interpreted, read, and constructed into education systems. The significance of this article has regional and international implications for teacher professional development, because comparative education is employed as a means to explain an education system that fully examines the strengths and weaknesses of a curriculum (Adamson, Bob and Morris, Paul, 2014; Kazamias, Andreas M., 2001).

Authors:
Taymour Bouran, Sophia University, Japan

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Mr. Taymour Bouran is a full-time Ph.D. student at Sophia University and IBDP History teacher, in Tokyo and Karuizawa, Japan respectively. In utilizing both positions, Mr. Bouran's research entails the examination of Ainu history education.

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