Fumiko Noguchi joined the ESD Programme at the UNU-IAS in April of 2019. Born in Tokyo, she received an undergraduate degree in international economics and finance from Tsuda University. After her first career experience in banking in Japan, she moved to Australia to obtain a Master’s degree in Environmental Education at Griffith University. Since then, she has lived, worked and studied in Japan and Australia. She completed her PhD in ESD at RMIT University. She has gained extensive experience in practice, policy advocacy, research, teaching and module development for ESD in the Asia-Pacific region for over twenty years. Throughout, she has consistently taken community-based approach and indigenous and local knowledge and learning. During the UNDESD (2004-2015), she acted as a programme coordinator for the Japan Council on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J). She is also a traditional knowledge holder who practices Aikido, with the rank of San-Dan (third-degree black belt).
The trend of Ainu and indigenous people education) (In Japanese
Fumiko Noguchi (Part:Contributor, Embodied local knowledge and right recovery of Ainu people: Re-thinking ESD from the individuality of a socially marginalized)
Toyokan Publishing 2016
Educating for Sustainability: Fostering resilient communities after the triple disaster
Fumiko Noguchi (Part:Contributor, Radical approach from the periphery: Informal ESD through rights recovery for indigenous Ainu)
Routledge 2016
Educating for Sustainability in Japan: Fostering resilient communities after the triple disaster
Fumiko Noguchi (Part:Joint Editor)
Routledge 2016
Environmental Education in Japan
Fumiko Noguchi (Part:Contributor, Radical approach in ESD – Works of Mopet Sanctuary Network in Okhotsk Mombetsu, Hokkaido, Japan)
Toyokan Publishing 2014
Further promotion of ESD by Asian civil society organisations towards the end of UNESD and beyond
Fumiko Noguchi (Part:Joint Work)
ESD-J 2013
Research on ESD in the formal education
Fumiko Noguchi (Part:Contributor, EfS in Australia: School education for the capacity development of students who can think and act for the local problem solution)
National Institute of Educational Research (NIER) 2013
New development of ESD in Asia-Pacific region
Fumiko Noguchi (Part:Contributor, Australia: EfS promotion policies and its trend)
Akashi Shoten 2012
Towards 2014, the Final Year of UNDESD: 2010 Project report for the establishment of Asia NGO Network on ESD
ESD-J (Part:Joint Work)
ESD-J 2011
Report on Project for Promoting Networking and Cooperation among NGOs: 2010-2011
ESD-J (Part:Joint Work)
ESD-J 2011
Report on Project for Promoting Networking and Cooperation among NGOs: 2009-2010
Being ‘critical’ for whom? – Critical reflection of critical environmental education theory based on the Ainu indigenous fishing rights claim activism in Japan
Fumiko Noguchi
RMIT University Centre for Urban Research, “Whose Land Is It, Anyway?” 26 Jun 2017
