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Toh, Glenn – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
Japan is known to be a country that manicures its socio-cultural borders. In this article I will examine discourses regarding openness, closedness and cultural diversity in relation to policies and practices that draw heavily on mythologies of English language as an inroad to greater openness and diversity. To do this I will examine two English…
Descriptors: Asians, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Davies, Ian; Mizuyama, Mitsuharu; Ikeno, Norio; Parmenter, Lynne; Mori, Chiho – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2013
The authors discuss findings from the project "Political Literacy in Japan and England". They do so to follow up on work published in this journal in 2011. The now completed project involved two schools in England and three schools in Japan, and had the aim of exploring what teachers would do in each country when asked to use the same…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods