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Native Speakerism and the Japanese Ideal of English Language Teaching: Globalisation, Ideology, and Practice
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Christopher Samuell – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
The relationship between concepts of 'native-speakerism', English language education and their effects on local stakeholders are continually evolving. As such, this paper critically analysed native-speakerist ideologies in the Japanese EFL teaching context with the aim of illustrating the complicated nature of native-speakerism as it currently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Ideology, Global Approach
The Rate of Return to Early Childhood Education in Japan: Estimates from the Nationwide Expansion
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Hideo Akabayashi; Ryuichi Tanaka – Education Economics, 2024
We present new estimates of the internal rate of return to early childhood education. Utilizing the nationwide expansion of preschool education in Japan between 1960 and 1980, we initially assess the impact of preschool attendance on high school graduation and college enrollment for men. Subsequently, we compute the social rate of return to…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, School Expansion
Writing a Common History Text for Mutual Understanding among Japanese, Korean, and Chinese Students
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Kimura, Masami – History Teacher, 2022
Efforts have been made among scholars from Japan, South Korea, and China since the 1980s--on both private and state initiatives--to narrow the gaps in their historiographies and to cultivate mutual understanding. This article offers an extensive discussion of the author's history project, "A Student Project of Writing a Common History…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbook Preparation, Cross Cultural Studies, Guidelines
Tsuda Umeko and a Transnational Network Supporting Women's Higher Education in Japan during the Victorian Era
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Johnson, Linda – American Educational History Journal, 2010
Having limited access to colleges and universities offering women the same educational opportunities available to men, elite women of the 19th century crossed national borders for advanced study and teaching opportunities. The career of Tsuda Umeko, founder of one of the first private institutions of higher education for women in Japan, leader in…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Higher Education, Advocacy, Educational History
History Education and Reconciliation: Comparative Perspectives on East Asia
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Han, Un-suk, Ed.; Kondo, Takahiro, Ed.; Yang, Biao, Ed.; Pingel, Falk, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The legacy of crimes committed during the Second World War in East Asia is still a stumbling block for reconciliation and trustful cultural relations between South Korea, China and Japan. The presentation of this issue in history school books is in the focus of a heated public and academic debate. This book written by historians and pedagogues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Role of Education, Politics of Education
Problems of Teaching about Religion in Japan: Another Textbook Controversy against Peace?
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Fujiwara, Satoko – British Journal of Religious Education, 2007
Although inter-religious conflicts have not yet surfaced as major social problems in Japan, religious education for peace and tolerance is needed in the country as much as in other countries. This article aims to disclose that, in light of political contexts, supposedly neutral "teaching about religion" can be as problematic as history…
Descriptors: Religion Studies, Social Problems, Religion, Peace