Purpose: What does it take to successfully implement new educational innovation in schools, and what roles does lesson study play there? In order to answer this question, this study investigated the implementation of Sesame Street's Dream-Save-Do (DSD) curriculum that was designed to help children in a Japanese elementary school learn to pursue…

This study examines the global expansion strategies that were initiated by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), with a specific focus on the adaptations of "Sesame Street: in Japan and South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. When CTW began its globalisation in the early 1970s, the international adaptation process of "Sesame Street"…

This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasises the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables. Teachers' life stories, the Cold War as a contextual element that framed curricular transformations in the US and Europe, and the study of trends in education policy at transnational level…

This document presents statistics and tables dealing with the use of television and radio broadcasts in Japanese schools. Topics discussed include: (1) the increase in the number of schools using school broadcasts; (2) reasons for using school broadcasts; (3) the exchange of views between teachers and broadcasters; (4) ways of overcoming obstacles…

Reports on Japan's University of the Air (UA), a broadcast, distance education venture empowered to grant bachelor of liberal arts degrees in several curriculum areas. Discusses the project's background, the state of telecommunications in Japan, UA curricula and goals, and possible problems. (LAL)

A school broadcast utilization survey was conducted between September and November 1975 from a total of 73,048 kindergartens, nurseries, primary schools, junior high schools, senior high schools, and special schools in Japan. Survey questions focused on the usage rates of TV, radio, and VTR as well as utilization of NHK's TV and radio school…

Educational television is used in Japan at the early childhood, elementary, and secondary education levels. Educational broadcasting is provided by the public broadcasting company, NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) and various commercial broadcasting companies. Instructional aids are produced by either NHK or one of the commercial companies, and there is…

The new media--including videodisks, microcomputers, and communication networks--are now becoming widely accepted in the world of education. It is predicted that as a result there will be many rapid changes in school education, both in content and in methods. In order to analyze rates, degree, and methods of utilizing the new media, the NHK Radio…

The economics of Japan's University of the Air, which uses primarily television and radio for instruction, are outlined and compared with those of traditional universities with similar program structures and of nontraditional postsecondary education programs. (MSE)

Discusses research which investigated the television viewing habits of Japanese children, ages one to five years, and television's effects on their behavior. Popular types of educational programs and their use in nursery schools and kindergartens are described. Teachers and other adults are responsible for maximizing the educational value of…

This study focused on the television viewing behavior of a sample of 277 two- and three-year-old children, who were observed by their mothers as they watched a children's studio variety television program entitled "With Mother." The program consists of skits by performers disguised as animals, songs and games, exercises, an animation…

Teletext broadcasting in the Japanese Language was begun in 1983 by the NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation). It adopts the Pattern Transmission Method, since over 3,000 Chinese characters, in addition to the 46 Katakana and 46 Hiragana syllabaries, are necessary to write sentences in Japanese. Currently, the teletext programs consist of news,…

Presents a theoretical perspective on the impact of society on new technologies, and gives examples of the impact of cultural factors on the development of computer/video-mediated educational technology in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Highlights include the use of television, computer languages, and videotex. (14 references)…

Provides a detailed look at combination of factors contributing to the success of the elementary science television programs of Japan, including production facilities, research, instructional approach, production techniques, and promotion. It is suggested that this series could serve as a model for the development of televised instruction in…