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Katayama, Yuki – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2022
This paper extracts the characteristics of the view of ability in educational practices during the period of rapid growth in Japan, focusing on the influence of these perceptions on the Ministry of Education's educational policies. The analysis draws on the debate about "vocational aptitude tests" and "observation guidance."…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Lassila, Erkki T.; Estola, Eila; Kelchtermans, Geert; Uitto, Minna – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
This article examines emotionally challenging expectations in the relationships beginning teachers have with students' parents. The data consist of narrative interviews with 17 Japanese beginning teachers. Due to strong cultural and social norms prescribing appropriate social interactions, Japanese teachers have little leeway in negotiating…
Descriptors: Coping, Expectation, Emotional Experience, Beginning Teachers
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Cave, Peter – International Journal of Educational Research, 2002
Japan has often been criticized for allegedly teaching its schoolchildren about the history of Imperial Japan 1895-1945 in selective and misleading ways. Is this criticism justified, and how does it compare with the record of another former colonial power in East Asia: England? International criticism of history teaching in England has been…
Descriptors: Criticism, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, History Instruction