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Xu, Fangqi; McDonnell, Ginny; Nash, William R. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2005
The following is a review of creativity courses and programs offered at universities in Europe, North America, Japan, and China. Creativity courses and programs occur in a variety of disciplines, but are found most frequently in fields such as business; education and psychology; and engineering, science, and technology. This paper provides…
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Comparative Education
Gluck, Carol; And Others – 1989
The goal of the East Asian Curriculum Project (EACP) of Columbia University is to support education on Asia at the secondary and elementary levels. The project has developed a variety of curriculum resources and collaborated with state and local educators in designing units about Asia for teachers. Each packet contains brief resource lists along…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
Martin, Roberta, Ed.; Tsunoda, Elizabeth P., Ed. – 1989
The East Asian Curriculum Project (EACP) of Columbia University is a national project whose goal is to support education on Asia at the secondary and elementary levels. The project has developed a variety of curriculum resources and collaborated with state and local educators in designing units about Asia for teachers. Each packet contains brief…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Class Activities, Course Content
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Sagliano, Michael; Greenfield, Kathleen – TESOL Journal, 1998
Describes a team-taught immersion-style, content-based program in English as a foreign language (EFL) in a Japanese college liberal arts curriculum. The collaborative model of content-based instruction differs from the typical theme-based, sheltered, and adjunct models in its educational goals and instructional format. Suggestions are made for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Second Language Programs, Course Content
Layzer, Carolyn; Sharkey, Judy – 1996
Experiences in teaching a first-year reading course in the intensive English program at Kansai Gaidai Junior College (Japan) are discussed. In the period described, there were six classes of 16 students each. A proficiency-oriented approach incorporating a learner development component was adopted to facilitate the transition from traditional…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Course Descriptions
Adamson, Charles – 1998
A two-semester English-for-Special-Purposes (ESP) course designed for nursing students at a Japanese university is described, including the origins and development of the course, text development, and teaching methods. The content-based course was designed to meet licensure requirements for English language training, emphasized listening and…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Allied Health Occupations Education, Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions