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Direct linkHidetsugu Suto; Qianran Wang – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Japan, like many countries, is facing problems with an aging society, and lifelong learning is becoming more and more important. To provide older adults with the opportunity to enroll in lifelong learning programs, it is essential to offer suitable programs. However, designing learning programs for older adults is not easy because they may have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Older Adults, Educational Opportunities
Kobayashi, Yoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Many people involved in international education, including students and parents, engage in a stepping-stone discourse that identifies English-medium learning in non-Western countries as a preparatory stage for postsecondary education in Western destinations, with the ultimate goal to secure competitive employment. The present study examines how…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, International Education
Yagi, Kenta; Sato, Yasutaka; Sakaguchi, Satoshi; Goda, Mitsuhiro; Hamano, Hirofumi; Aizawa, Fuka; Shimizu, Mayuko; Inoue-Hamano, Arisa; Nishimori, Toshihide; Tagi, Masato; Kanno, Marina; Matsuoka-Ando, Rie; Yoshioka, Toshihiko; Matstubara, Yoshiko; Izawa-Ishizawa, Yuki; Shimizu, Rieko; Maruo, Akinori; Kuniki, Yurika; Sakamoto, Yoshika; Itobayashi, Sayuri; Zamami, Yoshito; Yanagawa, Hiroaki; Ishizawa, Keisuke – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Owing to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, understanding how to hold future online academic conferences effectively is imperative. We assessed the impact of COVID-19 on academic conferences, including facilities and settings for attendance, participation status, cost burden, and preferences for future styles of holding conferences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Medicine, Professional Personnel
Lassila, Erkki; Hyry-Beihammer, Eeva Kaisa; Kizkapan, Oktay; Rocena, Angela; Sumida, Manabu – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2023
This research examines student teachers' thinking about teaching gifted students in an inclusive classroom context. Grounded in a narrative paradigm, we analyzed narratives from student teachers in Finland, Austria, Turkey, the Philippines, and Japan to identify solutions that they imagined in response to gifted students' needs in an inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted
Download full textTakizawa, Jun – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2023
Regarding the faults of the Japanese compulsory enrollment system, premised on attendance at a specific school, a forward-looking view must be taken on the guarantee of opportunities for general education via non-physical attendance (online attendance) in which physical attendance is not the default. At this time, municipal Boards of Education are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, General Education, Attendance
Kato, Miho – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2021
As public education faces multiple issues, including the surfacing of children's struggles in society and the formation of capabilities suited to the times, free schools are tasked with expectations for their role as a supplement to public education, leading to a change in the onetime structure of opposition. However, attention must be paid to the…
Descriptors: Free Schools, Nontraditional Education, Public Education, Educational Legislation
Christopher Samuell – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Private educational activities designed to enhance student outcomes outside the formal schooling system are increasingly referred to as shadow education. In Japan, shadow education traditionally consists of for-profit cram schools or "juku." "Juku" take many forms in Japan, yet their primary function is to offer students extra…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Socioeconomic Status, Decision Making, English (Second Language)
Wiboolyasarin, Watcharapol; Jinowat, Nattawut; Wiboolyasarin, Kanokpan; Kamonsawad, Ruedee; Tiranant, Phornrat; Boonyakitanont, Poomipat – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
The use of three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVWs) in language education has been widely acknowledged in the field, and researchers have expressed a growing interest in their proliferation in second language (L2) learning and instruction. In order to improve the Thai-speaking abilities of learners of Thai as a foreign language (TFL) in three…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kuraishi, Ichiro – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2020
The so-called "Educational Opportunity Guarantee Act 2016" was adopted and established in the National Diet in December 2016. As is well known, it gained impetus through lobbying from people involved with alternative "free schools," pursuing a stable position within the system, along with the night junior high school movement.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities, Public Education
Eguchi, Satoshi; Lee, Sunji – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2023
This paper examines the significance and potential of educational practices of evening junior high schools (yakan chugaku). After World War II, evening junior high schools were established for children who could not attend daytime junior high schools, and later those who had not completed compulsory education beyond school age began to study…
Descriptors: Educational History, Evening Programs, Junior High Schools, Educational Opportunities
Yoshida, Atsuhiko – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2023
This paper reconsiders the concept of "inclusion" by examining conceptions of "totality/wholeness," while exploring conflicts and dilemmas among various actors across the boundaries between the formal and non-formal in the Japanese public education system. Referencing the process surrounding the enactment of the new law on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Informal Education, Public Education
Wade, Ros – Management in Education, 2016
This article will focus on the challenges of leadership and management of a key initiative of the 20052014 UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), namely the Regional Centres of Expertise in Education for Sustainability (RCEs). It will argue that in order to achieve sustainability, there is a need to move away from outdated…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Opportunities, Barriers, Sustainable Development
Douglas Bourn, Editor – UCL Press, 2023
Young people around the world are calling ever more urgently on policymakers to address today's global challenges of sustainability, structural inequality and social justice. So it is little surprise that learning in a global society, understanding sustainable development and being active global citizens are increasingly popular themes for…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Lin, Meiko – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of "yutori" reforms on Opportunity to Learn (OTL), as defined by Stevens' (1993, 1996) multidimensional framework, and to examine how the changes in OTL may have subsequently affected Japanese 8th graders' mathematics achievement as measured by the Trends in Mathematics and Science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, National Curriculum, Academic Achievement
Custer, Lindsay; Tuominen, Anne – Teaching Sociology, 2017
Increasing college students' exposure to global contexts and improving their intercultural competency remain challenging educational objectives, especially at the community college level. Fortunately, the recent shift in higher education from study abroad opportunities toward so-called "internationalization at home" initiatives, where…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Opportunities, Global Approach, Online Courses
