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Miyakawa, Takeshi – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
This paper reports the results of an international comparative study on the nature of proof to be taught in geometry. Proofs in French and Japanese lower secondary schools were explored by analyzing curricular documents: mathematics textbooks and national curricula. Analyses on the three aspects of proof--statement, proof, and theory--suggested by…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mathematical Logic, Geometry, Teaching Methods
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Kitagawa, Kaori – History of Education, 2015
This article aims to describe post-war continuity and change in disaster education in Japan. Preparedness for natural disasters has been a continuous agenda in Japan for geographical and meteorological reasons, and disaster education has been practised in both formal and informal settings. Post-war disaster management and education have taken a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters, Educational Change
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Watanabe, Kanae; Dickinson, Annette – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
In New Zealand and Japan, despite health education on food, exercise, and hygiene, children's health is an important concern in preschools. This study investigated the relationship between children's health and health education in New Zealand and Japan using a qualitative interpretative descriptive design method and semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Preschool Children, Child Health
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
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Sasaki, Miyuki – Language Testing in Asia, 2018
Background: This study investigates how the criterion-referenced (CR) approach has impacted relationships between goals, classroom practices, and student achievement in English education in Japan from 1994 to the present, a period covering three government-mandated administrations of a national curriculum (Course of Study). No study has…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement
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Underwood, Paul R. – SAGE Open, 2017
This article reports a multiple case study that explores the potential impact of Japan's national curriculum for senior high school English as a foreign language (EFL), specifically in relation to the integration of grammar teaching with communicative work, a key component of the curriculum and an area globally underresearched in high schools. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Teachers
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Saida, Chisato – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
The new national educational policy was implemented at secondary schools in 2002 in Japan. The revised Course of Study for foreign language education corresponding to the national educational policy decreased the number of English lessons per week from four to three at the junior high school level, which resulted in a 25% decrease in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
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Creese, Brian; Gonzalez, Alvaro; Isaacs, Tina – Curriculum Journal, 2016
This paper sets out the main findings of the International Instructional Systems Study (IISS), conducted by the UCL Institute of Education and funded by the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB). The study examined the instructional systems and intended curricula of six "high performing" countries and two US states. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Practices, Educational Objectives
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Hollins, Martin; Reiss, Michael J. – Curriculum Journal, 2016
The last two decades have seen unprecedented interest in science curricula, with many governments seeing improvements in the performance of their school students in science as key to future economic prosperity. We present the results of an analysis of the curriculum documents for primary and secondary science in Australia (New South Wales and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum, National Curriculum, Comparative Education
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Ohnishi, Koji; Mitsuhashi, Hiroshi – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2013
After the March 2011 great East Japan earthquake, school teachers became much more interested in education for disaster prevention. The purpose of this paper is to indicate the extent education for disaster prevention is present in the Japanese National Curriculum. Before March 2011, some elements of disaster prevention education were added to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Emergency Programs, Natural Disasters
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Nakayasu, Chie – Curriculum Journal, 2016
This article examines Japanese education system especially relevant to the school curriculum, which might support Japanese high performance in the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), mainly through Japanese policy documents. The Japanese education systems have been constructed by the local context of society and politics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum, Educational Practices
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Shimura, Takashi – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2015
This paper examines the status and relevant challenges in Japan's primary geography education system, from the perspectives of curriculum and levels of teachers' expertise. Japanese elementary schools adopted the subject Social Studies in the National Curriculum Standards. These emphasize geographical content and the curriculum structure utilizing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Elementary Education, National Curriculum
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Glasgow, Gregory Paul – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2014
Research in language-in-education policy and planning (LEP) rarely examines how language teachers negotiate official policy statements on teaching methodologies. In this study, I investigate the current upper secondary school foreign language national curriculum in Japan that requires English classes to be conducted in English, implemented since…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Seniors, Language Planning, National Curriculum
Wilms, Ulrich Heinz – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The formation of the Common Core State Standards can be regarded as the predecessor of a national curriculum. This research addresses how the proposed national math curriculum compares to the math curricula of a sample of peer-nations (Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, and Japan) with high student achievement rates in math, while relating the math…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Secondary School Mathematics, National Curriculum
Achieve, Inc., 2010
Through the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Initiative, states and territories have collaborated in the development of a common core of standards in English Language Arts and mathematics for grades kindergarten through twelve that are now being adopted by states. Designed not only for the purpose of providing strong, shared expectations, the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, State Standards, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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