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Peer reviewedNakayama, Shuichi – International Journal of Social Education, 1996
Summarizes the recent changes in the highly centralized national geography curriculum in Japan. Prominent reforms include the implementation of environmental studies in the elementary schools and a broader emphasis, across the curriculum, on world geography. In teacher education, emphasis is now placed on teaching skills rather than subject…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy
